Ben Bykovski

i shipped MoveWorth

i had a relocation simulator sitting around, forgot about it, then decided to clean it up and ship it in public.

i had MoveWorth sitting around for a while.

it started as one of those tools that felt obviously useful, then got stuck in the usual graveyard: half-polished, signup wall in the way, some rough edges, not quite embarrassing enough to delete and not quite finished enough to show.

so today i pulled it back out and shipped it.

what it does

MoveWorth answers a simple question: should you move cities for that job?

you enter where you are, where you might go, the current salary, the offer, monthly spend, net worth, savings rate, and time horizon. it runs the projection and gives you the thing most relocation calculators avoid: a straight verdict.

salary screenshots lie. a higher offer can still leave you worse off once rent, tax, and actual saving power show up. the interesting part is not the salary number. it is the 10-year delta.

what i changed before shipping

i removed the forced signup flow. the simulator now works without an account, because that is the only sane default for a tool like this.

i added a conversational intake, editable assumptions, shareable verdict cards, city-pair pages, live weather signals, and a tighter source panel. the point is trust. if a number changes the decision, you should be able to see where it came from.

why ship it now

because letting useful things rot is dumb.

also because building in public needs reps. not just polished launches with a perfect story. sometimes the honest story is: i forgot about this, found the useful core, cleaned up the front door, and pushed it live.

try it here: moveworth.app