--- title: "Ryan | PowerballTax (@powerballtax) | Hashnode" description: "Indie hacker & creator of PowerballTax.com. Building open-source lottery data tools and sharing thoughts on developer experience." url: "https://hashnode.com/@powerballtax" --- @powerballtax # Ryan | PowerballTax @powerballtax 路 Menlo Park, USA 路 Joined June 2026 Indie hacker & creator of PowerballTax.com. Building open-source lottery data tools and sharing thoughts on developer experience. ## Comments [Hey everyone! 馃憢 I鈥檓 Ryan, the maker of PowerballTax. I built this because I couldn't find a clean, ad-free calculator for the 2026 brackets. The whole thing is open-source and built with Next.js & Vercel. Let me know what you think of the UI, or if you have any questions about the data scraping part! I'll be hanging around in the comments today.](https://hashnode.com/posts/building-in-public-why-i-created-an-open-source-us-lottery-tax-calculator-for-2026/6a21006b2f611e6372d0a422/comment/6a212b9ff0946b685c80f20a) Comment 路 Article 路 Jun 4 路 [Building in Public: Why I Created an Open-Source US Lottery Tax Calculator for 2026](https://hashnode.com/posts/building-in-public-why-i-created-an-open-source-us-lottery-tax-calculator-for-2026/6a21006b2f611e6372d0a422)