We just crossed a quarter trillion dollars in assets on ProjectionLab. $250 billion 🤯 Financial companies often share AUM (Assets Under Management) as a signal of scale, trust, or business health. But we don't manage these assets. Our customers do. People use ProjectionLab to model their own financial lives: investments, career changes, starting a family, taxes, retirement, and all the other what-ifs that come with trying to make good financial decisions. That's what makes this milestone different. It represents hundreds of thousands of households using professional-grade planning tools that have traditionally been out of reach to make smarter money decisions. Thanks to everyone who has used PL, shared feedback, suggested a feature, or told a friend. You're the reason this thing keeps getting better ❤️ We'll keep building the way we always have: thoughtfully, independently, and for our customers.

Just shipped a tax strategy optimizer that saves the median household $300,000 in lifetime taxes. Really exciting to make powerful tools like this accessible to everyone. And kinda crazy to realize I've been working on @projection_lab for half a decade now. #buildinpublic

productive year so far! how's your commit history looking?

no longer catfishing with a pic from 2016! 🙌 was kinda fun stitching this new one together with @GeminiApp and @canva (sorry for the cut @traveling_olive 😂)

Here's what getting married this summer taught me about B2B SaaS... Absolutely nothing. Not everything in life has to be about business 🙂 For 5 years, I've struggled to give myself permission to disconnect. When you build something from nothing, it becomes part of you. What if there's an outage? Should I have my laptop on-site? How many things still rely on me? At some point, you have to tell yourself to shut up and get a grip. If you waste this kind of day worrying about work, you're not getting it back. Sometimes you've got to trust your team, and yourself, enough to fully disconnect. So yeah. I left the laptop at home. Didn't think about work. Wrote zero lines of code. And it was a perfect day, rain and all.

had fun catching up with friends, partners, and creators at @FinCon 25 this year! ... and stayed a few more days to enjoy the outdoors! ⛰️ 🎣 on the river, it hit me how lucky we are to be building a calm and independent business, not chasing unicorn valuations or racing to investor meetings. no one to say we can't go fishing on a tuesday morning 😊

It's easy for running a business to become all-consuming. And it can be tough to give yourself permission to ever disconnect. But good friends + hard miles are restorative... even if my knees currently beg to differ 😂

Working for yourself is amazing, but also addicting. You blink, and years have passed. This weekend I took a day to reset on Katahdin (Cathedral → Knife Edge → Helon Taylor) with @traveling_olive. First time in a long while I went an hour without thinking about work!

24 hrs on the front-page of hacker news?! Replying to comments till 2am was not on the agenda this week 😂 Glad the HN hug of death is no problem for @Firebase Hosting! Here's a peak at the analytics: xitter.cf/_knolan/status/1942688…

Well that's more real-time visitors than usual! Cool to see this story picked up on HN: xitter.cf/_knolan/status/1939672…