no traction · 1.0 years

A cap table calculator, 1 year of evenings

A year of side-project evenings on a vesting and cap-table calculator. It never got anywhere on adoption and was abandoned. It surfaced again years later in the comments under somebody else's launch of the same idea — wishing them well, saying the world really needs this, and pointing out that their vesting calculator was giving 50% at the one-year cliff instead of 25%.

Nobody said what it cost. Our estimate is ≈ $100,000 — 780 evening hours at about $130 an hour, 2018–2019.

Told by calcsam on Hacker News, 5 Aug 2019. Retold here in our words, with some of theirs kept; the original is linked above.

Written by them, summarised by us, and linked back. Ask us to take it down and we will, no questions.