Googled "net worth percentile by age" – found outdated Federal Reserve tables from 2019. No real-time data. No easy way to track my actual progress.
So I built Guapital (https://guapital.com):
Core insight: Net worth tracking is pointless without context. $200K means nothing without knowing "...compared to whom?"
What it does: - Syncs bank accounts (Plaid), crypto wallets (Ethereum/Polygon/Base/Arbitrum/Optimism), manual assets - Calculates percentile ranking vs peers your age - Shows historical trends ("You moved from 45th → 62nd percentile in 6 months") - Privacy-first: paid model, never sell data
Curious what HN thinks – would you use percentile rankings? Or is this just comparison anxiety disguised as a feature?
jay_kyburz•5h ago
It's a race to freedom from wage slavery. A race against time because you only have about 50 years left.
What you really need to know is, how cheap can you live, and how soon you can retire. How big does your warchest need to be so that it will grow with inflation and so that you can live off that growth without drawing down the principle. That's really all that matters.
throwawayffffas•3h ago
> What you really need to know is, how cheap can you live, and how soon you can retire. How big does your warchest need to be so that it will grow with inflation and so that you can live off that growth without drawing down the principle. That's really all that matters.
That's a recipe for disaster. Living cheaply is not the way to go. You want to go big so that you can have resources in case of extraordinary events. You don't want to be the retiree that has to go back to work because they can no longer afford groceries or because their house burned down or whatever.