Show HN: Ballistic – A Personal Finance Tracker

The reason the landing page sucks is because Ballistic wasn't really intended to be a product. I created it mainly for two reasons:

1. I made a simpler version of the app before to learn node and found myself using it often. I wanted a version with more features and so I created Ballistic.

2. I wanted to use it as a portfolio item I could reference when applying to jobs which require Node/Angular.

I still think you're right though, so I quickly updated the landing page. Hopefully it's a little more clear now.

As it is, I'm not going to sign up without some clear value. Hope to see it again with an improved landing page.

I've considered posting on reddit, but most subreddits (including that one) have rules against "self promotion", which they might think I'm doing.

So maybe try it out for yourself sometime and share it if you like it! :)

It's not really intended as a proper product, just something I've been working on for my own use that I've decided to open up to others.

However in the long term, especially when talking about retirement income, wage inflation (which is usually higher than price inflation) can produce more insightful results. Using wage inflation in an analysis means that you build in the increases in living that can be expected over the decades.

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I just didn't want to spend money on an SSL cert for a project that's not intended to make a profit. Sorry for the trouble anyway.