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Very clean and well done. I like the product - I would like the product more if there was a standalone app - no server side, no account - just the app and my data where I want it. That's just me though - privacy conscious. You have a very tight framework and are building an ecosystem of related products. Smart.
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It depends on your situation. If you're young and starting out - how many student and/or internships did you do with the promise - if you work out, this could turn into a permanent job. Very few do - it's a filter mechanism or nepotistic practice. It's a tough gig for students. Where it counts - entering mid level career choices - demonstrating continued building of responsibilities and...
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Learned from your post Mona, thanks. I am tinkering with embedding an AI assistant into my program to handle complex questions that will ultimately reduce email support. I have to very careful and implement it unobtrusively and not make it the focus of attention. Reading your experience helps me with thinking about how to market. I think it just becomes another matter of fact feature.
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Everyone has bad experiences - Reddit is a place where angry old mods shut you down and threaten to ban your account. To me Reddit is like my old AMC Hornet, wanting to be a Tesla. All they did was add a fresh coat of paint and AI copilot in the back seat. The IPO was Reddit walking into a Tesla dealership saying "value me like a tech company." Wall Street bought it but it's still a Hornet...
If Reddit required face scans to prove you’re human… would you still use it?
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Nice job well done. Obviously you spent a lot of time on this app. I have created a few with the same approach - providing free calculator tools - but for the purpose of pointing users to my main website. I see that you're tool has no monetization model ... or so at first though that's what I think. I like your dropdown menus - get me to the calculator I want fast. You've done a really good job...
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Robert Vassovleft a comment
Nice work, useful tool. Two questions, Question 1. Are you going to make a PC version? Question 2. background - I am thinking about developing an AI assistant for my program (desktop crypto tax calculator). the question - would your tool be able to track AI token use from any user using my program? Probably, your answer will be not at the moment but it's possible yes.
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Hey Arin, I get your motivation for your product. I have similar notions but a different approach, for a much different product. You can check out https://planner.privateacb.com/ and https://savings.privateacb.com/ - these tools run the models right in someone's browser (so if you wanted to take the financial models you can). My idea is to provide some simple tools to push people to my main...
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Robert Vassovleft a comment
The idea of this launch is to provide users FREE tools to assess their surplus income on a monthly basis, consider dollar cost averaging into Bitcoin. Then, there are gentle reminders there are tax considerations to be aware of - and that my main program PrivateACB.com can help them here too. People like free tools that they can quickly check their overall financial status without commitments.
Savings/Bitcoin Dollar Cost Average CalcYou saved $XXX per month What if you put it into Bitcoin?
A simple but intuitive savings calculator (runs in your browser) based on income and expenses, then, determines surplus and models Bitcoin Dollar Cost Average by user terms and returns estimated returns based on the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) from previous Bitcoin returns. For now it is focuses on Canadian Income earners.
Savings/Bitcoin Dollar Cost Average CalcYou saved $XXX per month What if you put it into Bitcoin?
Robert Vassovleft a comment
Great question, I don't have a better answer than already responded to. Models are improving so fast that the answer you seek will likely change just as fast as the models are developing. Are we dumbing down our critical thinking skills by using AI to provide the answer?
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Robert Vassovleft a comment
Tangent to this conversation, Rob Braxman of https://brax.me/home/rob produced a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8 where he says Microsoft (and other large software companies) are preparing for the day when users will no longer operate software on their computers (it's already happening) — which will become expensive dumb terminals connected to cloud services, with AI serving up your...
The next wave of AI layoffs is just around the corner. Where will people find their place for work?
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Skilled Labour Training may surface as a sought after job, especially if immigration policies continue in the direction they're going now. Vocational training for Carpenters, Electricians, Construction Labourers, Plumbers, Heavy Equipment Operators, Welders, HVAC Technicians, Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics, Painters, Concrete Finishers etc.
The next wave of AI layoffs is just around the corner. Where will people find their place for work?
Robert Vassovleft a comment
As a new developer in the Crypto Tax space promoting Privacy - full disclosure is important to me. Therefor, providing users a privacy policy and access to all their calculations and reports is free. The only paid part of the app is printing final report PDF's and CSV's. They can use the software and manually transfer results to their tax submissions - and test results against their current...
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
Robert Vassovleft a comment
Early on for me, I didn't build my product for users - I built it because I faced a problem and I didn't have a desktop solution. Once successful in solving the problem, I figured other users could benefit. Whether or not I am correct will ultimately be determined by 1. Good marketing (for which I need help ... did I say HELP), and 2. User adoption. There's also a Users "needs vs wants"...
How do you decide which features to add to your product? [building & improvements]
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PrivateACB — Desktop crypto tax calculator for Canada, US, Australia, and UK. Stack: - Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) — Desktop app, not SaaS. Rust handles all the financial math with lossless decimal precision. React frontend, Vite bundler. - SQLite + SQLCipher — Encrypted database, all data stays on the user's machine. Big selling point for tax software. - Typst — PDF generation for tax...
What are you building, and what does your stack look like?
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Hi Tatiana - I found your thread because I searched on "tax" to find related posts to my product, however, I read what you're doing but I have not investigates Flamingo Compliance ever so please take my comments in that light. As a traveler if I could use the app to instantly by county, visa requirements (for me based on my travel documents) - visa requirements, procedures, visa cost, limit of...
Building a travel-days tracker for tax/visa compliance — would love feedback
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Crypto tax calculations should be guaranteed Private.
That's why I built PrivateACB (Adjusted Cost Base). It sits somewhere between spreadsheet hell and cloud based tax calculations. Runs on your desktop, encrypted. Produces tax reports. Too often, people sacrifice privacy for convenience - this is a dangerous habit. Your cloud information is easy pickings for Companies and Individuals that don't have your best interest in mind. Some of them are...
A desktop crypto tax calculator built for privacy. Your transaction data never touches a server — all calculations happen locally, encrypted with AES-256.
One-time $39 purchase, not a yearly subscription. 30-day free trial with full features.
Generates CPA-ready reports:
US — Form 8949, Schedule D, wash sale detection, FIFO/LIFO/HIFO
Canada — Schedule 3, T1135, superficial loss, ACB method
Handles 100K+ transactions across 10+ exchanges. Account-by-account basis tracking for 2025
Private, offline Crypto Tax CalculatorPrivate, offline crypto tax calculator for US & Canada
Robert Vassovleft a comment
I started building this because something about crypto tax software never sat right with me: to calculate your taxes, you have to upload your entire transaction history — every buy, sell, transfer, wallet address — to someone else's server. That's a massive amount of financial data handed to a third party, just to do math that could run on your own machine. So I built a tool that does exactly...
Private, offline Crypto Tax CalculatorPrivate, offline crypto tax calculator for US & Canada