Hi,
Over the years, I have accumulated many “calculators” in various spreadsheets to make my personal life easier: tax simulations, startup equity, investment allocation, real estate, …
Clearly calculators online are a dime a dozen, yet I’ve never found the competition (top hits on Google) as accurate as mine, they all seem very wonky, slapped together quickly and missing important details.
What would be the path of least friction to produce a no-backend static website that can host these calculators? I believe that with the right intuitive UX and user-friendly features (i.e. persist the input in the URL query string, instant recomputation on input change, …) they could be valuable for someone.
For context, I’m a software engineer working in FAANG as a backend developer in distributed systems and Linux kernel for many years. I just really dislike dealing with anything frontend-related and I’m utterly incompetent in it, I find CSS to be the biggest monster in computer science (and I troubleshooted bugs in distributed consensus algorithms, ha!), so I’m ideally looking for a framework/template where I can mostly focus on my business logic functions/invariants and get as a result a few static assets to host.
Thanks!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670590
Points: 10
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Over the years, I have accumulated many “calculators” in various spreadsheets to make my personal life easier: tax simulations, startup equity, investment allocation, real estate, …
Clearly calculators online are a dime a dozen, yet I’ve never found the competition (top hits on Google) as accurate as mine, they all seem very wonky, slapped together quickly and missing important details.
What would be the path of least friction to produce a no-backend static website that can host these calculators? I believe that with the right intuitive UX and user-friendly features (i.e. persist the input in the URL query string, instant recomputation on input change, …) they could be valuable for someone.
For context, I’m a software engineer working in FAANG as a backend developer in distributed systems and Linux kernel for many years. I just really dislike dealing with anything frontend-related and I’m utterly incompetent in it, I find CSS to be the biggest monster in computer science (and I troubleshooted bugs in distributed consensus algorithms, ha!), so I’m ideally looking for a framework/template where I can mostly focus on my business logic functions/invariants and get as a result a few static assets to host.
Thanks!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670590
Points: 10
# Comments: 20
Continue reading...
