Press Coverage
Dinkytown.net as cited by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, CNBC, Kiplinger, and more - a press archive spanning 2004-2026.
Renting vs. Buying: Home Shoppers Should Plan To Stay Put for a Long Time
Jonathan Clements walks readers through Dinkytown.net's rent vs. buy calculator step by step, modeling a $200,000 home purchase at 6% to show that rising mortgage rates could wipe out the benefit of a price decline β and that the break-even period depends heavily on local market conditions.
Read ArticleHow to Save for Your First Home
Kelly K. Spors directs first-time homebuyers to Dinkytown.net's mortgage calculators to compare monthly payments across different loan types, advising that payments shouldn't exceed 28% of gross monthly income and that a 20% down payment avoids costly PMI.
Read ArticleGood Form: Using Your Tax Return To Bolster Your Investment Performance
Jonathan Clements instructs readers to grab their 1040 and head to Dinkytown.net's marginal-tax calculator to determine their federal tax bracket β a key step in deciding whether to hold municipal bonds, corporate bonds, or pay down a mortgage in taxable accounts.
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Financial Calculators: Crunching the Numbers
Newsweek highlights Dinkytown.net as a leading destination for free financial calculators, praising the breadth of tools available for consumers making major financial decisions across mortgage, retirement, and tax planning.
Read ArticleAre You Saving Enough for Retirement?
Jonathan Clements points readers to Dinkytown.net's retirement calculators to stress-test their savings rates, illustrating how modest increases in contribution percentages compound dramatically over a long career.
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The Calculator King Can Help
The Star Tribune profiles Ebert as Minneapolis's quiet "calculator king," tracing Dinkytown.net's pivot from a pre-Yelp neighborhood portal to a financial tool empire drawing over one million monthly visitors and 10,000 institutional clients.
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Minnesotan Is a Pioneer in Online Number-Crunching
Kara McGuire profiles Ebert's accidental pivot from neighborhood portal to financial calculator empire β 471 tools, 1 million monthly visitors, 10,000 clients β capturing his core philosophy: focus on the acquisition costs of big purchases, not daily lattes.
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Computerized Investing reviews Dinkytown.net's 350+ calculators spanning mortgages, taxes, and retirement, praising dynamic graphs and standout tools like the Roth vs. Traditional IRA and Home Budget Calculator. Free for personal use; commercial licensing available.
Read ArticleThe High Cost of Being Self-Employed
In his final WSJ column, Jonathan Clements uses Dinkytown.net's 1040 Tax Estimator to show a self-employed person earning $100,000 owes $30,582 in federal taxes β $4,713 more than a salaried employee β largely due to the self-employment payroll tax.
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Meet the Man Behind the Online Financial Calculator β All 450 of Them
CNBC profiles Ebert and his 25-year-old company, noting that Dinkytown.net draws 1.5 million monthly users and licenses tools to AARP, American Funds, and hundreds of financial institutions. The piece traces the site's origin to a 1998 Roth IRA spreadsheet and a pivotal 1999 order from U.S. Bank.
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What's Your Retirement Number?
Sandra Block directs younger savers to Dinkytown.net's 401(k) calculator in a multi-stage retirement guide, illustrating how saving 6% vs. 5% of a $50,000 salary compounds dramatically over a 42-year career.
Read ArticleInvestors Should Go to Dinkytown.net
Retired CFP FX Bergmeister recommends Dinkytown.net as an essential resource for retirement-stage investors, highlighting its Social Security optimizer, Roth conversion tools, and calculators covering IRMAA brackets and RMD strategy.
Read ArticleLooking for the Online Swiss Army Knife of Financial Calculators?
Retired CFP FX Bergmeister calls Dinkytown.net the equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife, highlighting 450+ tools licensed to institutions including AARP and American Funds, with standouts like the Home Budget Analysis and Should My Spouse Work? calculators.
Read ArticleUse the Calculators at Dinkytown.net to Answer the Followingβ¦
A Course Hero finance tutoring problem names Dinkytown.net as the required tool β not an optional aid β reflecting the site's wide adoption as a go-to calculator resource in academic finance coursework.
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RocketReach profiles KJE Computer Solutions Inc, the Minneapolis-based parent company behind Dinkytown.net. Founded in 1994, it shifted from networking and application development to financial calculators for mortgage, banking, and financial institutions.
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