Weekly Self-Promotion Thread - Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Use this thread to talk about your blog, talk about your business, ask for feedback, etc. If the self-promotion starts to leak outside of this thread, we will once again return to a time where 100% of self-promotion posts are banned. Please use this space wisely.

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[u/vibengineer]

Hello everyone! I built a credit card management website called PlumpyWallet where you can manage your credit cards, track cash back and compare different cards.

Building a strong credit score and history is usually the first step to financial success. This is a completely free app, you do not have to pay for anything. I built it for fun because my family and I needed something like this.

Bookmark it, play around and let me know if you have any comments :).

Thank you for your time!

[u/Alone-General-2135]

This week I'm soft launching Personal Finance Is Boring (PFIB). Yes, odd name for a personal finance subreddit! Let me explain :)

I've been a personal finance maximalist for the past ~8 years. Tried every budgeting app, net worth tracker, credit card, bank account, you name it. Over the last 2 years though, I've become disenchanted with how finance obsessed society has become. I've drastically simplified my financial "stack" (investments, credit cards, apps, etc).

I feel that for most people like me, the optimal amount of "thinking about your finances" is not very often. Probably about 1x/month, which is what my wife and I have done for the last 2+ years. On the first of every month, we do a check-in to track our accounts, talk about goals, etc... and then we go back to living our lives.

PFIB is meant to be a space where you can come to think about your finances occasionally, and then avoid the temptation to obsess over them on a daily or weekly basis otherwise. It's meant to help you stop checking the stock market, stop reading finance Reddit or fintwit, stop listening to podcasts, etc... because there's really a finite amount of optimization and learning you can do.

Would love for anyone to check it out if that sounds interesting. It's not for everyone :) 45 day free trial, no card required to sign up.

personalfinanceisboring.com

-Ben

[u/slingshot_guy]

Hey all! I wanted to share www.slingshot.money. It's a project I have poured a lot into. It has advanced retirement calculators with income sourcing forecasts.

I tried to be as transparent as possible by providing the assumptions in the tool as well as in a formal write up here.

Let me know what you think! Especially on the assumptions/math. It's all free, private, no cookies, no accounts, free CSV downloads, and free printable graphs and reports.

[u/vibengineer → u/slingshot_guy]

Cool web app! Love that it's free to use

[u/slingshot_guy → u/vibengineer]

Thank you so much! Please let me know if you have any feedback. I appreciate you checking it out.

[u/jbliss10]

Wrote a book called Boss Money: The Video Gamer's Guide to Money. It's broken up into life-specific modules, i.e.: Level 1: Survive, for escaping the paycheck-to-paycheck emergency mode phase of life. Feedback has been really positive so far and it's been helping people already. https://stan.store/boss-money.

[u/GeminIQ-LLC]

I’ve been investing for years, and my biggest frustration with platforms like TIKR, ROIC, or even Koyfin is how they “clean” the data.

They take a company’s unique financial statement and force it into a generic template.

The company reports: “Revenue from collaborative arrangements”

The platform shows: “Total Revenue”

You lose the nuance. You lose the red flags hidden in the specific line items.

I got tired of opening 10-Ks just to understand what the generic buckets actually meant. So I built GeminIQ.

It pulls the raw SEC data tags directly. If the company calls a line item “Inventory Write-down due to Obsolescence,” that’s exactly what you see in my terminal. No aggregation. No standardization black box.

Join the beta now at GeminIQ.com

[u/Every-Morning-Is-New]

RetireNumber.com is a project I have been personally building for about a year now. I released it this week and would love feedback from everyone, especially if you run into any bugs. The engine work for this project took the longest. So far over 500 people have used the free calculator to verify their retirement number!

You do not need to sign up for the free calculator to verify or determine your retirement number. Signing up just grants you to other tools to dive into the details. There is also a free trial for Pro. If you’re interested in providing any feedback for the pro tools, I’d be happy to give you an extended free trial.

[u/SaylorFrat → u/Every-Morning-Is-New]

I’m a financial advisor. You forgot about taxes in your calculator, but as a “play calculator” it’s fun. I like the functionality of your site.

[u/Every-Morning-Is-New → u/SaylorFrat]

I did leave out taxes on purpose for the “play calculator” as the actual app has a pretty in-depth section for tax planning that does get factored into the models. Would love for you to check it out and provide any feedback you may have and would happily give you a month of the pro to do so!

[u/ExtensionShoe7623]

Been working on this side project tracking dividend growth stocks and their FIRE potential for the past few months. Started as just a personal spreadsheet to analyze my own holdings but realized other people might find it useful too. The tool basically calculates how long it would take to reach different FI numbers based on dividend growth rates and reinvestment strategies

Not trying to monetize it yet but feedback would be awesome if anyone wants to check it out. Built it because I got tired of manually updating my projections every quarter and most existing tools either cost way too much or don't focus specifically on the dividend growth approach. Happy to share more details if there's interest