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You Need A Budget (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Off course you can handle your expenses. But maybe you still want to know exactly how much you can spend TODAY.

Read on then.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

There's already an envelope budgeting tool called You Need A Budget that's well known in the personal finance community, making this naming feel intentionally misleading. This tool is also not how the envelope system works. It's not an envelope per day, it's an envelope per category.

I want to assume best intentions here but this project is raising some major red flags for me and I haven't even looked at the source code. I even kind of wonder if its AI...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is quite odd to duplicate the name of a reputable budgeting software. Looking at the commit history though, most of this was written over 2 years ago, so not AI unless the commit dates are forged.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wrong, it fails to include a libre software license text file.

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