Clout Calculator

Employer called it "dedication."

Paycheck called it straight time.

Federal law called it wage theft.

Took me 45 seconds and a calculator to figure out what took my employer 3 months to "accidentally" forget. 🙃

Check your overtime. It's literally just math they're hoping you won't do.

#WageTheft #WorkersRights #OvertimePay #KnowYourRights #PersonalFinance

Spoiler: a bottle exploded in my kitchen at 2am.

Not cracked. Not leaked. Exploded. I woke up thinking someone had broken in. Walked into the kitchen and found my cabinet dripping with what used to be a Belgian golden ale. Glass everywhere. Smelled incredible, tasted like regret.

My fault entirely.

I'd bottled too early because I "felt like fermentation was done." No measurements. No gravity readings. Just vibes and impatience.

Here's the thing nobody told me when I started homebrewing — ABV isn't just about knowing how strong your beer is. It's about knowing whether fermentation is actually finished. Yeast doesn't care about your bottling schedule. It will keep eating sugar inside a sealed glass bottle until something gives.

The math is stupid simple btw. Take a gravity reading before fermentation (OG), take one after (FG), subtract them, multiply by 131.25. Done. I use this ABV calculator now because it also does temperature correction automatically which — trust me — matters when your sample is warm.

Started doing this consistently around batch seven. My beer got noticeably better within three batches. Not because the formula is magic, but because suddenly I could see exactly where I was screwing up.

Ignorance feels fine until your cabinet smells like a brewery at 2am.

Measure your gravity. Every time. Don't be me.

Anyone else have a bottle bomb story? Please make me feel less stupid about this.

Hey IH 👋

I launched CloutCalculator — a collection of free online calculators across finance, health, math, construction, and more.

The problem I kept running into:

Every time I needed a quick calculation — mortgage estimate, cubic yards for a project, BAC for a story I was writing — I'd land on some bloated site plastered with ads, demanding I sign up before I could see a result. Or the UI was so cluttered I couldn't figure out where to even enter my numbers.

So I built the thing I actually wanted:

• ⚡ Instant results, no sign-up required

• 📱 Clean, mobile-friendly UI

• 🧮 Verified formulas with clear explanations

• 100% free, forever

What's on it right now:

Finance (mortgage, RV loans, Coast FIRE), Health (BMI, BAC, BMR), Construction (concrete, asphalt, cubic yards, board feet), Math, Education, Conversions, and more being added regularly.

Where I'm at:

Still early — focused on SEO, expanding the calculator library, and making sure every tool actually explains the output so users understand the numbers, not just see them.

Would love feedback on:

• Which calculators are missing that you actually use?

• Does the UX feel clean enough or is there anything confusing?

• Any niches (real estate? fitness? budgeting?) I should prioritize next?

Link: cloutcalculator.com

Happy to answer any questions. Building in public from here 🚀