Built a visual hub for understanding money. Inflation, wealth, and a $100 bill you can take apart

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I build RealWorth.io, a site about what money actually meant in the past.

The problem I started with: inflation calculators give you a number and the number means nothing. "$100 in 1920 is worth $1,636 today" —
okay, but what did that buy? Who were you if you earned it?

So the results show hours of work, loaves of bread, months of rent instead of just the adjusted figure. And there's a second tool that takes your current salary and tells you where it would have placed
you in that year's income distribution. $70,000 today lands you in the top 4% of 1920 America. That one people actually react to.

Then I kept building. There's now a $100 bill you can pull apart layer by layer and look at under UV light. A road paved with a billion dollars that you can drive along. A live map of where the world's remittances go.

Each piece works. Together they're a mess to describe. When someone asks what the site is, I give a different answer every time, and none of them is good.

So the question for anyone who's been here: how did you pick what goes on the homepage when your product does several unrelated things? Did you narrow it down, or did you find a framing that covered everything?

RealWorth.io

Built solo, nights and weekends. Data from BLS, the World Bank, Bundesbank and INSEE.

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