Retirology
FIRE planning without the subscription.
What it does
Professional retirement planning as a one-time $19+ purchase, not a $20-40/month subscription. Roth conversion ladders, Monte Carlo, ACA optimization, full 51-state tax across all four filing statuses, year-by-year drawdown Sankey. An affordable, privacy-first alternative to ProjectionLab, Boldin, MaxiFi, and YNAB. Runs locally on macOS, Windows, and Linux. No accounts. No telemetry.
Does the same job
all alternatives →- ISI spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator2023 · projectionlab.com · ▲766
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093. TL;DR - ProjectionLab (https://projectionlab.com) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users! Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time…
I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries11d ago · foresightplanner.com · ▲16A complete retirement planner covering accounts, taxes, pensions, withdrawals, and life events, stress-tested against thousands of simulations drawn from over a century of real market history. Start with a free quick check, no sign-up required.
- AFA FIRE calculator that verifies or determines your retirement numberFeb 2026 · retirenumber.com · ▲5
Most retirement calculators either oversimplify things or ask you to link your accounts so they can make money off your data. I wanted something that actually helped me see if I was on track without handing over a bank login, so I built RetireNumber. It's a privacy-first retirement planner. You type in your own numbers. No account linking, no selling your data, no VC. Just me and a subscription. The engine does real math: Monte Carlo with 1,000 runs, historical backtesting to 1928 using Shiller's Yale data, tax-aware withdrawal strategies, and scenario comparison so you can try different…
White Pine Finance CalculatorsJul 2026 · ▲5Free calculators to plan your budget, debt, and FIRE goals
More commerce this month
the category →
Compare your startup equity grant for free.
Commerce · 26d ago · equitybee.com
Launched alongside, June 2026
the whole month →
Fundraisly▲1,544AI fundraising agent that finds investors and books meetings
AI · Jun 2026 · fundraisly.com
- H6Homebrew 6.0.0▲1,481
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!
Dev tools · Jun 2026 · brew.sh
- PU
hope you enjoy
Life & fun · Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io
- IM
Life & fun · Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com