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title: "Comment by Ryan | PowerballTax on \"Building in Public: Why I Created an Open-Source US Lottery Tax Calculator for 2026\" | Hashnode"
description: "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"
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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.