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Calculator Platform 14 weeks 3 engineers

UNRELIANT.COM

Building a Privacy-First Calculator Ecosystem That Scales to Millions

27+
Calculators
0
User Data Stored
99.9%
Uptime
<100ms
Load Time

The Challenge

The client needed a comprehensive calculator platform that could compete with established financial tools — but with a fundamentally different philosophy. Rather than harvesting user data for advertising, every calculation had to run entirely client-side with zero data transmission. The platform needed to support 27+ calculators across financial, health, home improvement, and utility categories, each with complex mathematical models, while maintaining sub-100ms interaction times and scoring perfectly on Core Web Vitals.

The Solution

We architected a modular Laravel application with a Vue.js frontend where all computation happens in the browser. Each calculator is a self-contained module with its own mathematical engine, input validation, and result visualization — but they share a common design system and routing infrastructure. The server handles SEO-optimized page delivery, category management, and the content layer, while all calculations execute client-side using Web Workers to keep the UI thread responsive even during complex financial projections.

Financial Tools

Mortgage, loan, retirement calculators

Health & Wellness

BMI, calorie, fitness calculators

Home & Living

Flooring, paint, garden tools

Privacy First

No data storage, all local

Build Process

Phase 1 2 weeks

Discovery & Architecture

Catalogued 27 calculator types, mapped mathematical models, designed the modular architecture, and established the zero-data-collection requirement as an architectural constraint.

Phase 2 4 weeks

Core Platform Build

Built the Laravel backend with dynamic routing, SEO infrastructure, category system, and the shared Vue.js calculator framework with Web Workers for computation.

Phase 3 5 weeks

Calculator Development

Developed all 27+ calculators with accurate mathematical models, input validation, result visualizations, and edge case handling. Financial calculators were validated against industry-standard formulas.

Phase 4 3 weeks

Performance & Launch

Optimized for Core Web Vitals, implemented aggressive caching, conducted cross-browser testing, set up CDN distribution, and deployed to production with monitoring.

Total: 14 weeks from kickoff to production

Tech Stack

The technologies and services powering UNRELIANT.COM.

Laravel 11
Backend
Vue.js 3
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Styling
MySQL
Database
Redis
Caching
Cloudflare
CDN
AWS EC2
Hosting
Vite
Build

Results & Impact

Built and launched 27+ calculators across 4 categories in 14 weeks

Zero user data collected — all computation runs client-side in Web Workers

Perfect 100/100 Lighthouse performance scores across all calculator pages

Sub-100ms interaction times even on complex financial projection models

Organic search traffic grew 340% in the first 3 months post-launch

Modular architecture allows new calculators to be added in under a day

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