From what I've seen, total output (usually) continues increasing, but at a certain point, the curse of scale is bureaucracy.

That's why I made this!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849502

I created a free trial account to try it out (another commenter suggested it) - it really does seem useful, but it doesn’t have a preset that works in my country.

For example - I have to pay income tax for the granted cost of my RSUs (but not the gains!), but my income tax bracket also depends on my income. Then there’s a pension fund to which I deposit every month, then at a certain age it pays me some factor of the saved money every month for the rest of my life (I also have to pay income tax for that, above some threshold). Then there’s some other instrument called a study fund, which surprisingly you do have (called KH) but I don’t know if I trust how it’s implemented.

I would be happy to be a paying customer and model these things myself in PL but I don’t really know how.

I guess what I’m looking for is not a tool that will solve my problem (my country is not a huge market), but something general and expressive enough that will let me sort of model it myself.

If I can work on passion projects like this sustainably and live a modest lifestyle, that's all I've ever really wanted :)

Indeed

Thanks! Really looking forward to being able to bring a new level of sustained focus to it, without all the context switching of the past couple years.

Well, perhaps I had to squint to see it much less than expected.

Oh it absolutely helped.

Thanks for being one of the OG early adopters who kept me energized and motivated over the past couple years!

And best of luck with the final boss: One More Year Syndrome.

Aww thanks! Although, I'm hesitant to call it a success story yet. Pretty sure that would triple the odds something spontaneously combusts.

Thanks! What part of the journey are you in at this stage?

This gave me a good laugh.

With your powers of intuition, maybe you should just put it all on black a few times then call it a day (jk, please don't)

Anyway, I appreciate you checking it out, and I'll do my best to still be here in 5 years when you come back ;)

Somehow, this is the one product I have seen on HN that I always think : "Huh, I hope this works out, and HN is exactly the place where people would appreciate it."

So, I guess I was mentally primed for thinking of your tool when I read the title. No premonition, just monkey brain pattern matching.

Even in the worst case, at least it's good for the plot ;P

What is it like trying to come up in that industry?