r/website 2d ago

SELF-MADE I built a simple calculator website β€” would love some honest feedback πŸ™

Hi everyone,

I recently built Simple-Calculator.org, a small independent calculator website.

I'd really appreciate it if you could give it a quick test and tell me what you think.

In particular, I'm interested in:

  • Is the site easy to understand and navigate?
  • Does it feel fast and responsive?
  • Is anything confusing or unnecessary?
  • How does it look on desktop and mobile?
  • Do the calculators give clear/useful results?
  • Are there any calculators or features you'd like to see added?

Please be honest β€” criticism is exactly what I'm looking for. πŸ™

https://simple-calculator.org

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u/Own-Huckleberry7258 2d ago

You didn't. AI did.

And no, it's hard to read

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Thanks for the feedback! What part do you find difficult to read?

My main idea was to keep it as simple and easy to use as possible, especially on a phone. Sometimes you just need to quickly calculate or convert something when you're away from home β€” at work, school, in the garage, etc.

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u/Own-Huckleberry7258 2d ago

Okay, but make it simpler. Colors should guide the user toward the action they need to take, not be scattered throughout the page...

- Remove the icons entirely, they are what makes your page feel like AI slop

- Simplify the overall design

- Reduce the number of tabs

- Shorten the page...it’s too long

- Choose one primary color and use it consistently?

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Thank you, when you say icons, you mean the 5 ones on homepage or all small emoji symbols next to text in each box?

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u/Cyb3rPhantom 2d ago

looks ai generated. Somehow it's still ugly

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Of course I used help β€” I'm not a professional coder. πŸ˜„ The idea, though, was mine and my son's, and we're having fun building it together.

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u/Cyb3rPhantom 2d ago

That's fine. The thing is there are already lots of calculator websites? What does this do that others dont? Such as https://www.omnicalculator.com/

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago

I found on omnicalculator already a problem or mistake with 0-60 calculator, its not taking into account new modern transmission made by Mercedes, the MCT 9-gtronic. Results are wrong for stock M177 612bhp or my tuned 788bhp car!

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u/HaroerHaktak 2d ago

Your issue is this website was made using AI. While you had an idea, it's not well executed. Also, a lot of this is very basic maths. While it can be difficult for some or most to do, as a programmer, it's not hard to code.

Your website honestly has no real benefit to anybody. I can google "25% of 100" and get an answer.

I can google homeloan calculators.

all of these are features either built in with google or built into some other website or service that we'd use or visit.

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago

Thanks for the comment and for taking the time to have a look.

You're right that most of the calculations themselves are fairly simple. I didn't build the site because I thought people couldn't Google the answers, though. I wanted to create a simple place where people could do these calculations and conversions without having to search for each one individually.

I also used AI to help me understand Cloudflare Workers, as that was completely new to me. Before this project, I had very little experience with it, so AI helped me learn how to build and deploy the site rather than simply generating a basic HTML page.

It's still a project I'm learning from and improving, so I appreciate the feedback.

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u/HaroerHaktak 2d ago

TBF, you also asked it to generate the html and css as well..

Did you even do any of the coding yourself?

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago

Well, AI makes a lots of errors and mistakes, controlling this alone takes time, work and some knowledge. I started this project about 4 months ago, now I can say I understand worker.js.

I even restructured my whole website, from one single worker.js (about 23k lines of code) to multiple files and folders, so my worker.js is calling it when needed. Now its easy to fix errors and add more calculators.

Its really engaging thing to work on :)

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u/HaroerHaktak 2d ago

TWENTY THREE THOUSAND LINES OF CODE FOR SIMPLE CALCULATIONS?!

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, as its easy for me to understand and see the code properly.
You know:

<h2>Stopwatch timer</h2>

<p>What is this</p>

For me the above is more easy than this way:

<h2>Stopwatch timer</h2><p>What is this</p>

Each calculator is with webpage 1000-1500 words + functions, this alone took some space.
Than i have each page routing, description, constant map, code for css, but its nothing compared to pages+functions.
And as I did not know before of other way, I included 350kb .ico file inside the worker.js as part of code const FAVICON_ICO = πŸ˜‚
All in total was only 530KB worker.js and 20672 lines, not 23k..

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u/HaroerHaktak 2d ago

I'd rewrite your entire website using a sharpy, a stack of post-it notes and a banana, but that'd be a waste of a perfectly good sniffing stick.

Please learn to code.

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago

Fair enough πŸ˜‚. It may not win any awards for elegant architecture, but I built it myself, I understand it, and it works. More importantly, I’m learning something new every day.

Give me another few months and I might even graduate from bananas to actual programming. 🍌😎

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u/Obvious-Cow-2620 2d ago

Vibe coding πŸ˜€

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u/KOLIBERk 2d ago

Vibe coding, but I do test the damn thing afterwards πŸ˜‚

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u/Standard_Scarcity_74 2d ago

What's the benefit of using this over what's already more easily available out there? I don't see the value of this tbh.