This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

December 19, last year. I am in the supermarket line, holding a very large watermelon.

In two days, twelve people come to our place for Yalda, the longest night of the year.

I open my bank app. I close it. I open it again, as if the number might change the second time.

It does not.

Payday is January 1. I do the math. Then I stop doing the math.

This is That Day. Every family has one.

🧱 The bot is less dramatic. It calls That Day "Wall Day": the day the budget runs out.

TL;DR: Ledgerly is a Telegram bot for lazy families. Send it receipt photos and family dates. It tells you when the money will run out, while you can still change it.

Sped up: I tell the bot the family events, ask for /forecast , then ask about a gift. The chart shows the likely path, the range and the budget line.

A note before the story: to keep my family private, I changed the names, the birthdays and the money.…