Building in Public: Why I Created an Open-Source US Lottery Tax Calculator for 2026
As an indie hacker, I’ve always been fascinated by blending real-world financial data with clean user interfaces. Recently, I noticed a huge gap in the lottery community: most online payout calculator
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Ryan | PowerballTax
Indie hacker & creator of PowerballTax.com. Building open-source lottery data tools and sharing thoughts on developer experience.
Hey everyone! 👋 I’m 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.