#finfam

Hello Hatnote/Weeklypedia fans!

Current subscribers might have noticed the curiously repetitive content the last couple weeks. Turns out the official MediaWiki instances that we use to pull recent changes got upgraded, and broke our queries. That's all fixed now! so fresh Weeklypedia will be in your inbox tomorrow.

In the meantime, we figured it's worth mentioning that we missed this change due to the launch of another project: FinFam - The Collaborative Financial Planning Platform.

While not an official Hatnote project it's very much wiki-adjacent. Imagine a wiki of interactive, explorable explanations, defined in spreadsheets, which are also open-source. We call them Views. If you have something quantitative, especially financial, but don't feel like firing up your HTML/JS/CSS skills, FinFam makes it so you can do it all from Excel / Google Sheets. See a demo on the about page.

So far we've got Views for:

Deciding between renting and buying a house

How much it costs to have/raise a baby in the SF Bay Area

How much to pay yourself as a startup founder, and even:

How long you're likely to live

And at least a dozen more