this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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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...
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.
Indeed no AI, and no forging on commit dates. I will think of a better and more appropriate name for this little piece of software. Thanks for the reply.