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Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own

21•calculatehow•4h ago
I’ve always found that online calculators tend to have bad UIs, especially on mobile. Most of the calculator websites I’ve come across use outdated and inconvenient ways of inputting data, or they format the results in confusing ways.

I’ve noticed that fraction calculators (especially mixed fractions) are terrible to use, even on desktop. I haven’t built one of those yet, but it’s something I’m planning to tackle soon.

This is a project I’ve always wanted to work on, but I’m relatively new to this space. So far, I’ve created a collection of simple calculators focused on math and finance.

I’d really appreciate any feedback on the UI/UX or anything else you think could be improved.

You can try it here: https://CalculateHow.com

Comments

FerkiHN•4h ago
Very great calculator, good design, but it has too many functions. I advise you to add a "search" to find points, I also personally like the intuitive interfaces that are easy to understand even for beginners newbie.

Therefore, it may be necessary to add documentation.

In conclusion, the project is not bad, but I wanted the interface to be more user-friendly for beginners.

calculatehow•4h ago
Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll definitely add a search bar in the future. I think the best UI's don't need documentation. Not saying mine is the best, but if you feel like I need documentation then I'm doing something wrong.
FerkiHN•3h ago
Yes bro, maybe I just misunderstood the interface a little, it's still great, but I wanted a simpler interface, it will attract more community to the site because it will be easier for people to understand what and how.

I hope your project turns out great and the community loves it.

stahn1995•3h ago
Looks good. It's like a swiss knife. I love it.

As FerkiHN says, a search function sounds really powerful. I find timezone converter is really helpful. I work with 5 different timezones, and ask "when is 9AM <some timezone> in my timezone?" a lot. That would be a good idea for your next time calc.

Please checkout my work as well! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492131

FerkiHN•3h ago
Wow bro, this is just great, your project really deserves a star and I gave it, I also really liked that the utility is available locally.

By the way, I'm also a programmer and I create interesting things (my project is not ready yet) but I wanted to tell you about my PIT project.

This is a project for viewing photos directly in the terminal, it's very cool (I repeat, it's not ready yet), but could you please take a look at my repository, and if you want to award it a star just for assistance.

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

stahn1995•2h ago
Just starred. Amazing work! As a side note, I think as a user, I'd love to see what would be the example of image view. The cli command definition looks good tho.
FerkiHN•2h ago
Bro, I've almost finished developing it, literally, because in 1 day I'll post the utility and show demo examples. Believe me, it's really worth a star, I'm shocked at what happened.
forty•45m ago
On Firefox for Android on my phone, with the native keyboard the button to hide the keyboard is usually replacing the back button. With your own keyboard, the button to hide the keyboard is on the top right, but my muscles memory goes to hit the back button (which brings me back to the previous page rather than hiding the keyboard).

I'm not sure if that would be worth it to add an history element so that the back button can hide the keyboard, but for me that would make things more natural.

pineaux•39m ago
The UI is still wrong.

The perfect calculator is an LLM that calculates it for you.

/Jk (but really tho, like a nice Wolfram alpha)

No but I want to see a normal calculator immediately. Maybe some tabs that allow me to change functions.

flysand7•37m ago
The biggest thing I'd want from a calculator -- having to calculate numeric expressions involving units, and getting the result in a specific unit. This is something I've used the google search prompt for because it can do these things to some degree, but google isn't a calculator and it will refuse to give you an answer right away if it doesn't think you entered a valid numeric expression.

Most of the time I'm looking for an answer in questions like:

    4 weeks + 59*3 hours in days
    1/2 * 36g * (900 m/s)^2 in joules
Other times when I'm working with memory and want to get a specific finite representation in hexadecimal:

    1 megabyte as hex
This might be off-topic because you're building a suite of calculators that I'd have to switch between to perform these tasks, rather than a single calculator that can do all / most of these things, but this kinda raises a point - if you want to switch between the calculators, maybe the UI should allow going from one to the other without performing the navigation, I'm thinking something like a sidebar that you can click on to switch to a different calculator.

Ideally when you switch and switch back the state should be saved because you might need to copy multiple values between calculators. EDIT: I forgot browsers have tabs, but still.

But really for me personally, nothing would beat a single thing that can do units and bases

t_mann•30m ago
What is it about traditional calculator UIs that you don't like on mobile? I think they work great, unsurprisingly, since the form factor is similar. I have several (paid) mobile apps that fully emulate a traditional calculator model and I regularly use them.

To give some positive feedback: I like your loan calculator. That's something that could really be useful for a lot of people. I think there's still more you can do there, eg let people figure out how much credit they can afford with a given monthly payment. Take a look at traditional financial calculators like the HP 12c, they're extremely versatile in that regard.

Personally, I don't see the need for separate calculators for things like percentage increase or rounding numbers. Most of those could be combined in 2-3 apps at most, imho, scientific, financial and unit conversion. The others are really separate apps that would need a lot more functionality than the pure calculation aspect to really be useful (eg time tracking).