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Show HN: A Career Income Visualizer

1 points| oan | 1 year ago |financelibrary.com

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oan|1 year ago

Hey everyone!

I built this rather simple tool to try out an AI platform I was seeing around a lot. It basically shows your income from current age to expected retirement age in a grid where each dot represents a week, along with other details you can see by hovering on them like your age by that time, expected weekly income and when you'll reach 1 million in total income. It can be a bit depressing at times.

Again, nothing too serious, just a fun experiment. I honestly did not think it was possible to make a website like this with an AI 'engineer', meaning the whole website, not just this tool.

Mind you, there were times were I wanted to delete it all because it was not able to understand extremely basic concepts or fix quite stupid bugs, and times where I had to go and fix them myself because it wouldn't understand even after trying really hard, but I'm impressed overall.

billconan|1 year ago

no tax?

beardyw|1 year ago

It just happens that a few days ago I found that I had kept nearly every P60 I ever got in over 40 years. P60 is a UK tax summary for a year with "do not destroy" on it. I think I did pretty well.

Obviously, as anyone would, I stuck the income figures into a spreadsheet with cost of living figures [1] and got a chart. What came out was a chaotic mess of ups and downs.

Good luck predicting that.

[1] My first annual salary was just over £1,000 a year. Without cost of living it would have made no sense.