Changelog
Current version v0.1.1. Last updated 2026-05-13.
2026-05-12 · v0.1.0 · Initial honest skeleton
Added
- Home page with embedded HeroCalc (live mortgage calculation)
- Full 30-year fixed mortgage calculator at
/us/mortgage/30-year-fixed: URL-state shareability, all 50 states + DC, tiered PMI by LTV, PMI auto-removal at 78% LTV, print stylesheet, CSV export, full keyboard a11y - State income tax index at
/us/tax/state-income: sortable table, summary cards, filter chips - 51 per-state stub pages with top marginal rate, structure, and source link
- Methodology, Glossary, Sources pages
- Legal: Privacy, Terms, Disclaimer, Cookies
- SEO infra: sitemap.xml, robots.txt, JSON-LD structured data, per-page OG meta
Decisions
- Framework: Next.js 16 App Router. React Server Components for static content + client islands for the calculator.
- No database in v0.1. Tax data, rate snapshot, and property-tax medians live in TypeScript const files. Postgres activates in v0.2 alongside the rate ingestion pipeline.
- US-first. UK and AU coverage are on the roadmap; routes are reserved but return 404 in v0.1.
- PMI is tiered by LTV (0.50% / 0.75% / 1.00% / 1.25%) rather than the flat 0.75% the original design prototype used. More realistic; auto-removal at 78% LTV is now surfaced in the calculator UI.
Coming in v0.2
- Compare scenarios (2-3 mortgages side-by-side)
- Extra payments (biweekly, lump sum, recurring)
- PDF export
- Per-state mortgage pages (50 routes for programmatic SEO)
- Site search (Cmd+K palette)
- Dynamic OG image generator
- Live Federal Reserve H.15 rate ingestion pipeline