Calquio

Finance and crypto

financial calculators

SHOW HN2026

314points
433comments
#137of 4,366 in 2026
Top 4%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

19 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 36 critical, out of 74 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Execution: 4 for, 13 againstIdea: 4 for, 6 againstDesign: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, intuitive and feature-rich retirement calculator

    From 1 comment
    • Very nice retirement calculater - clean, intuitive and rich in settings.
      Imanari on HN

Objections

  • Site content and footer claims of accuracy questioned for AI-generated work

    From 2 comments
    • Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.
      cube00 on HN
    • The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?
      mk12 on HN
  • Post and knowledge base look AI-written and promotional

    From 2 comments
    • It's a shame to find an AI-written ad so highly upvoted here. The author even insists that AI was used because of their poor English, which is the standard excuse on Reddit as…
      brushfoot on HN
    • The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?
      mk12 on HN
  • BMI calculator graph is incorrect

    From 1 comment
    • The graph on the BMI calculator is incorrect. While it is a pretty minor bug how many other "minor" bugs are in these tools. It's great to produce something for free but if it…
      Dannymetconan on HN

Requests

  • Add search or category filter

    From 1 comment
    • Nice project! One small suggestion, adding a search or category filter would help simplify navigation given the number of calculators available.
      sbondaryev on HN
  • Inflation adjustment in compound interest

    From 1 comment
    • That looks sweet. It would be great to adjust for inflation based on predicted inflation rates over the period.
      dsmurrell on HN

Questions

  • Whether the vibe-coded calculators are accurate and tested

    From 2 comments
    • Worst engineer's nightmare would be if you're hired, delivered the "working website with 100 of different calculators", and someone like myself needs "just to code review it" and…
      RomanPushkin on HN
    • The graph on the BMI calculator is incorrect. While it is a pretty minor bug how many other "minor" bugs are in these tools. It's great to produce something for free but if it…
      Dannymetconan on HN

Alternatives named

  • investor.gov compound interest calculator

    From 1 comment
    • >The problem? Every compound interest calculator online is terrible. Ugly interfaces, ads covering half the screen, can't customize compounding frequency properly, no…
      DeathArrow on HN

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