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A structured finance publication with editorial judgment across investing, banking, real estate, retirement, credit, and more.
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Financial literacy · reassembled
Facts
Deck.
Content and tools in the same place — designed so learning about money and acting on it feel like one continuous experience.
Year
2026
Role
Sole builder — product design, frontend, backend, and content architecture
Status
Live
Stack
Next.js · Supabase · Node.js · Transactional email
The gap
Finance sites made people choose.
Either a dense article written to rank, or a calculator dropped on a page without enough context to make its answer useful.
Most finance sites make readers choose between a dense SEO article and an isolated calculator with no context. FactsDeck makes reading about a financial idea and testing it against your own numbers two steps in the same experience.
Not merely functional. Effortless.
The product
One publication. Three connected systems.
Calculate
Twelve tools that share one learned pattern: quick journey, result summary, then a complete analytical workspace.
Engage
Contextual polls and graded quizzes that turn passive reading into a moment of reflection and proof.
One mental model
Learn one. Use all twelve.
Different mathematics underneath; the same predictable UX skeleton on top — including mobile bottom bars for smaller screens.
- 01
Budget Planner
- 02
Mortgage Calculator
- 03
Debt Payoff Planner
- 04
Retirement Calculator
- 05
Investment Growth
- 06
Crypto Yield Lab
- 07
Emergency Fund
- 08
Loan Calculator
- 09
Net Worth
- 10
Savings Goal
- 11
Credit Payoff
- 12
Compound Interest
Product views
Inside FactsDeck
Screenshot slots ready for final product captures.
- Screen 01Homepage
Editorial discovery and category navigation - Screen 02Article
Reading, poll, and quiz in one journey - Screen 03Tool workspace
KPIs, charts, and guided calculations - Screen 04Admin studio
Content, SEO, placement, and engagement
Under the interface
Three decisions that shaped the system.
- 01
jsonb over fixed engagement tables
Polls and quizzes could evolve without migrations. The trade-off was explicit application-layer validation and a read-time fallback for legacy content.
- 02
Consistency over tool-specific complexity
Mortgage amortization and staking yields differ underneath, but readers should not have to relearn the interface each time.
- 03
Engagement inside the article
The shared poll and quiz modal keeps the sequence intact: read, engage, understand the result — without sending attention to another page zone.
Takeaways
Effortless is cumulative
A product feels effortless because dozens of small interaction decisions agree with each other — not because of one standout feature.
Data flexibility is a loan
jsonb accelerated interaction design, but the application inherited the work of defining validity and cleaning up data when those rules changed.
The CMS and public UX are one system
A one-person product remains consistent only when the tools used to publish it are held to the same standard as the experience readers see.
See it in production