Personal finance simulator

Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2021–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Personal finance simulator, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Pressing back confuses user, then recovering lost data requires paying for premium2023-07-26
Auto-charge at trial end is a dark pattern that deters signup2023-07-26
Pension reference is confusing copy that doesn't make sense2023-07-25
Couldn't find the wizard option; it was hidden at the bottom of the Plan page2023-07-24
Guided tour popups pull eyes away from the dashboard2023-07-24
Drawdowns always pull from one spouse's account, making it hard to see which account runs low2023-07-24
Plan tab on mobile has an extra horizontal scroll2023-07-24
Trial silently converts to a $592 charge unless user remembers to cancel2023-07-24
Timed accordion pressures reader to hurry and can't be paused2022-04-20
Sandbox with seeded data is confusing; user can't make sense of it2022-04-20
Setup takes too long, so users lose interest and leave2021-07-15
Can't tell whether inflation is applied in future years2021-04-28
Switching plans resets graph, time period, and collapsed UI state, making comparison hard2021-04-28
Onboarding pushes a premium upsell for a color theme and hides pricing2021-04-28