Blog
Notes from building Lottery Dreams.
Short, honest, and shipped when there’s something worth saying.
Tax Math
The advertised jackpot is fiction. Here’s the real number.
Walking through the math on a giant Powerball from the headline to the bank deposit — where every dollar goes, who takes it, and why most calculators get the last third wrong.
Engineering
Modeling 50 states of lottery tax law without losing our minds.
Seven weird scenarios, 119 county and city options, and the hardest question we had to answer: does “state tax” mean withholding or liability?
Product
Why Lottery Dreams will never show you an ad.
The case for a clean, private tool in a category overrun by ads and gambling cross-promotion — and what “no ads” actually means under the hood.
More posts coming.
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