Thanks! It started out as something I knew I wanted for my own planning purposes, as well as friends and family, and it's awesome to hear that it's a tool you too can imagine coming back to when you consider new life plans and decisions. I aim to keep evolving it over time, and I'll be happy to take a look at those UI/UX suggestions you have.
- it was really un-intuitive to me to edit my starting investments/position. The little cal icon top of the left sidebar was not where i was looking for that. Suggestion: add starting conditions it as a collapsed column furthest to the left in the stacks under the main graphs. thats where i expected it to be, along side the other personal detail stacks
- adding a house mortgage and having it default to trying to pay it off as fast as possible seems wrong, few people would do that, makes more sense at low interest rates to do the regular 30yr
- its easy to accidentally do something that doesnt make sense that has big consequences... eg i was playing around quite awhile before i realized i had my living expenses marked as $X,000 per year instead of per month. I wonder if you could come up with a nice way to warn people when things are significantly outside "normal". eg "hey looks like your living expenses of $200/mo are unrealistic, did you mean this? y/n" dismissable, but might help people into correcting the bigger mistakes
Thanks for the ideas! I've been feeling like the initial conditions concept could use some work, and this approach sounds promising -- seems like it could also facilitate playing around with different initial conditions in different plans (if desired) as well.
I think warnings like you mention would be a great addition as well, though I have an intuition it may be difficult to pin down what outside of normal really is, since things can be different around the world. Still, I bet it's possible to call attention to any truly ridiculous-seeming values.
