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Smooth Paycheck
The steady paycheck hidden in your freelance income
Freelance income swings; your bills don't. Smooth Paycheck analyzes your last 12 months and finds the steady monthly salary you can safely pay yourself. Start with the free Income Stability Score — 60 seconds, computed in your browser. Paid upgrade: $29 once.
Hi Product Hunt — maker here. Smooth Paycheck is a side project I built after watching freelancers I work with plan their finances around their average month.
The problem with the average: half your months fall below it by definition, so the budget breaks the first time a slow month hits. The fix that actually works is budgeting from your floor, a low but realistic number your months reliably clear, and paying yourself that as a fixed monthly salary. Good months quietly build the buffer; slow months stop being a crisis.
Two pieces:
Free: the Income Stability Score. Enter your last 12 months and it scores how volatile your income actually is, shows your worst-month gap, and where you land on a chaotic to steady scale. 60 seconds, no signup, and everything is computed in your browser. Your numbers are never sent or stored.
Paid ($29, one-time): the full calculator. It finds your exact sustainable monthly paycheck and splits it across four buckets: tax, operating, buffer, paycheck. One-time because money tools shouldn't be another subscription. There's a 30-day no-questions refund, and for launch week PH gets 40% off with the code PHLAUNCH.
I'm not a freelancer myself, I'm a PM who builds tools for them, so I'd genuinely love to hear whether the score matches your gut sense of your own income, and where the framing misses. Thanks for taking a look.
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About Smooth Paycheck on Product Hunt
“The steady paycheck hidden in your freelance income”
Smooth Paycheck was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #146 on the daily leaderboard. Freelance income swings; your bills don't. Smooth Paycheck analyzes your last 12 months and finds the steady monthly salary you can safely pay yourself. Start with the free Income Stability Score — 60 seconds, computed in your browser. Paid upgrade: $29 once.
Smooth Paycheck was featured in Productivity (655.7k followers), Freelance (31.2k followers) and Personal Finance (2.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 153.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Smooth Paycheck?
Smooth Paycheck was hunted by Vimal Ajit. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Vimal Ajit
Hi Product Hunt — maker here. Smooth Paycheck is a side project I built after watching freelancers I work with plan their finances around their average month.
The problem with the average: half your months fall below it by definition, so the budget breaks the first time a slow month hits. The fix that actually works is budgeting from your floor, a low but realistic number your months reliably clear, and paying yourself that as a fixed monthly salary. Good months quietly build the buffer; slow months stop being a crisis.
Two pieces:
Free: the Income Stability Score. Enter your last 12 months and it scores how volatile your income actually is, shows your worst-month gap, and where you land on a chaotic to steady scale. 60 seconds, no signup, and everything is computed in your browser. Your numbers are never sent or stored.
Paid ($29, one-time): the full calculator. It finds your exact sustainable monthly paycheck and splits it across four buckets: tax, operating, buffer, paycheck. One-time because money tools shouldn't be another subscription. There's a 30-day no-questions refund, and for launch week PH gets 40% off with the code PHLAUNCH.
I'm not a freelancer myself, I'm a PM who builds tools for them, so I'd genuinely love to hear whether the score matches your gut sense of your own income, and where the framing misses. Thanks for taking a look.