Oddly my first impression was “wow this is sort of niche”, but then immediately realized how odd that sentiment is.

There are so many poor quality self help books out there on finance, that really amount to nothing more than a blog post. And whenever I’m trying to learn more or think about what options exist it feels like quite a slog. I’m definitely tired of pretty much all of the accessible financial advice amounting to using the standard 3 fund portfolio: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

While it’s a fine starting point, it definitely bothered me how inaccessible financial advice is, even with an advisor it gets pretty hand wavey

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mhashemi a day ago | parent [-]

Haha, spent many hours on the Bogleheads wiki, and I do love it. But yeah, I'd love it even more if it had fields I could punch values into. If only there was some sort of site for that...

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ngtvspc a day ago | parent [-]

I wonder what that calculator would look like? Maybe something that lets you visualize trends of return for different fund blends?

That doesn’t seem particularly useful however, maybe something to help contrast the other common investment profiles? I just wouldn’t know which ones those are

	▲	mhashemi a day ago \| parent [-]
		I have a whole rant about this saved for a future blog post. The short version is that people need actionable belief. Charts are useful to demonstrate a concept, but at the end of the day, we want answers. I'm sure there's _someone_ you trust. Whether it's your dad or a friend or a podcast, I think the main gap is giving the user specific action. For example, https://finfam.app/heyfinfam/views/rent-vs-buy boils it down to Rent/Neutral/Buy. Most of the other featured views do the same, to eliminate the exact ambiguity you're describing.