So I've been working on this side project for a few months now —
ourdailycalc.com — and I finally feel like it's at a point where
I can talk about it.
It's a calculator website. Yeah I know, another one. But hear me out.
Most calculator sites I've used are either covered in ads, painfully
slow, or give you a result with zero explanation of how they got there.
I wanted something cleaner.
I built it with Astro and honestly it was a great choice for this kind
of project. Static generation means pages load almost instantly and
there's zero client-side JS by default. Tailwind for styling,
Cloudflare for deployment.
The ⌘K search was something I really wanted — you can type
"20% of 500" or "convert 5 feet to cm" directly and it just works.
Feels nicer than hunting through menus.
Every formula has its source documented too. Like BMI uses the WHO
standard, calorie calculation uses Mifflin-St Jeor. I got tired of
calculator sites that just give you a number and you have to trust it.
The hard part honestly was scaling from like 10 calculators to 100+.
Keeping the design consistent, the SEO structured, the codebase not
a disaster — that took more thought than the calculators themselves.
It also works offline as a PWA which was fun to implement.
Still a lot to improve. Mobile UX could be better on some tools.
Planning to push toward 200 calculators eventually.
If you want to check it out: ourdailycalc.com
Would genuinely love feedback — broken formulas, missing calculators,
anything. Drop it in the comments.
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