Show HN: I built an app store for open-source financial plans (on spreadsheets)
Hi HN, Mahmoud here. I'm usually here for Python/FOSS reasons (boltons, glom, CalVer, ZeroVer), and that's still the case, but this time with a twist. While I was on parental leave from Stripe a couple years back, I started helping my parents figure out their retirement. They're academics coming from overseas, so let's just say I'm a big part of the plan. We found ourselves quibbling over Zoom screenshares, multi-tabbed Google Sheets, and countless links to articles and blog posts. When we looked for professional advice, we found conflicting guidance and misaligned incentives. I looked at the tools my friends and I use for big decisions and saw a huge gap. This isn't budgeting, nor is this investing. This is actual finance . Money management and decision making. Your options are usually: 1. Read a bunch of Bogleheads, Investopedia, Wikipedia, and Reddit
Why it failed
Hi HN, Mahmoud here. I'm usually here for Python/FOSS reasons (boltons, glom, CalVer, ZeroVer), and that's still the case, but this time with a twist. While I was on parental leave from Stripe a couple years back, I started helping my parents figure out their retir
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- mhashemi
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews