Blogs aren’t yelling to the world. They’re just a place you put your thoughts for other people to read or not read. Think of it like open source internal monologue.
If youre too young to have context for blogging then it’s not your fault. The intent of “blogs” is generally indeed advertising now a days.
This’ll sound harsh: Your landing page doesn’t do a great job of telling me why I want to use your tool. How is the simulation done? Do you mean you account for common historic market trends or just added some hysteresis? Is it just a pretty coat of paint on an interest rate tracker?
Is this open source? If I can’t audit the code, and it isn’t from my bank, a program is not getting my financial information.
Put privacy front and center on the homepage. Put why it’s better than google sheets or excel.
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! It's not harsh, direct feedback is by far the most useful.
You are right, it is not super clear how the simulation is done, I'll add that to the page. Currently, you enter a volatility rate, and then the simulation randomly draws from a normal distribution according to the volatility. Doing this around 1000 times gives the range of possible scenarios. In the future I'm planning to add simulations based on historical data.
The code is not open source, however you also don't have to connect any banking to it, it can be used as-is. I am taking privacy pretty seriously, that is why there is a legally binding privacy policy on the bottom of the page. But yes, I could put more emphasis on it, and explain how the page is keeping data secure.
If it was an accounting firm doing an audit and sending you lies, then yeah you could hold them responsible. If an OTC drug had incorrect labeling and misinformed you, you'd be able to hold them responsible.
If you ask an AI a question and it replies with incorrect information... dunno. Probably would be argued that it is similar to reading a forum post of incorrect information or picking the wrong book to research a topic. Kinda on you if you're doing the research.
I think they're mostly just hype junkies and a few true believers. They're a lot like the crypto people. "Sure it doesn't really actually entirely work for what we want it to but SOMEDAY!"