ProjectionLab

Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance (5 year update)

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In 2021 I shared ProjectionLab on HN[0], and I've now spent half a decade making it better.It started as a simple financial simulator side project. In 2023, I quit my job to work on it full-time. And today it's a pretty robust financial planning and optimization tool.This month, I added a tax strategy engine to automatically coordinate Roth conversions, tax-aware withdrawal blending, and gain harvesting, around constraints like targeting a federal tax bracket, preserving ACA subsidies, respecting IRMAA cliffs, or avoiding NIIT.A beam search wraps around this to help find the best strategy for your objectives (maximizing net legacy, minimizing lifetime taxes, etc.)It's been pretty cool to see

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Website: projectionlab.com