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Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by scubakid on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:14PM (#36852110)
Having a little trouble parsing the specific feature ideas here. It seems like one of them may be an ability to share a read-only view of your plans... but on the other(s) I might need a little more detail.
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by ramses0 on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:46PM (#36852573)
Plug-ins. "The Modeling Store":

* Startup9000 Simulator

* ClassicAutosAsInvestments Simulator

* My Personal Stamp Collection API Plug-in (not-public, not-for-sale)

Basically, theres enough weird stuff out there that could be a component of someone's financial hopes and dreams, that communities could sprout on being able to enhance around a topic.

There's also that first step of needing/wanting to be able to API-into the product to explore the idea to see if it's even something that can be modeled.

Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by robertlagrant on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:37PM (#36853860)
Being from the UK, having a plugin layer able to differentiate US from UK implications on finances would be extremely useful. But also as a fellow developer I hate to recommend a level of refactoring that might break you!
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by scubakid on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:42PM (#36853926)
have you seen the UK tax template (plan settings > tax) and account types? curious what additional controls / differentiation you'd like to see.
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by robertlagrant on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:12PM (#36854261)
Ah - no :-) I just read the feature list and didn't dig deeper. Just assumed it was going to be US-only. Impressive if not. How do you keep up?
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by chromatin on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:45PM (#36853959)
> share a read-only view of your plans

I think this is because you are conflating "model" and "plan"; whereas the conventional use of plan probably means model, when playing in your Sandbox it looks as if "plan" is model+data.

The grandparent poster is describing sharing models.

Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by j45 on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:21PM (#36857079)
I think the comments below summed it up well.

Basically setup my own versions of Roth, or other products.

In Canada, TFSA and RRSP are one

Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simu... by scubakid on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:26PM (#36857118)
Have you seen the TFSA and RRSP account types?

I try to offer as much configurability as I can, but if there are other areas where you'd like to see more of that, definitely let me know.