u/Additional-Spend-715

Not trying to sell anything, as I haven't even built it yet. I just want to verify that I'm going in the right direction. I'm building an retirement points tracker app in my spare time. Before I get too deep, I want to know what would actually make it worthy of your use. Current plan:


- Log drills/AT/orders in a couple taps, points tracked against your retirement year
- Warnings 
if
 a good year could slip (120/90/60 days out), not after. (rare, so not sure if it's necessary)
- Retirement pay projection with the whole calculation shown — points ÷ 360, multiplier, High-36.
- Correct fiscal-year tracking of 90-day blocks for the reduced retirement age, including a warning when qualifying days are about to be stranded at the end of the FY. As someone that has been on 11 orders in the last 6 years, I find the online calcs don't do this justice.
- Everything stays on your device. No account, no server full of records, and it never touches vMPF/ARCNet/myPay. 


Questions for you:


1. How do you track points today? (Spreadsheet? Screenshot of your points statement? Vibes?)
2. Have you ever lost or nearly lost a good year? What would've caught it?
3. Do you know your projected retirement age 
*to the month*
, counting early-age credit? Did anything help you figure it out?
4. What am I missing that would make this a no-brainer?


Genuinely designing this in the open and I'd rather build what the community needs than what I assume it needs.

ANG MSgt, 14 years, building an off-duty app to replace the many online crap calcs that you fill in occasionally and then wonder if it's right. The BLUF is an app will hold your info and you can update it simply as you progress towards retirement. 


The core is component-agnostic because the math is: points per drill/AD day, 50-point good years against your anniversary year, points ÷ 360 × multiplier × High-36 (or BRS), and the fiscal-year 90-day aggregation for the reduced retirement age which most of the time is a hassle and is the rule everybody miscalculates.


Plan so far: two-tap drill logging, alerts before a good year slips, a pay projection that shows its entire work, stranded-days warnings before 30 Sep, and everything stored on-device only.


For the Army side specifically:


1. What do you use now? RPAM printouts, a spreadsheet, nothing?
2. What's the most confusing part of the points/retirement system from where you sit?
3. Any Army-specific wrinkle (RST tracking? ADOS quirks?) an Air guy would blow past?
4. Would you actually pay a one-time few bucks for scenario features if the tracker itself is free? Honest answers are appreciated.