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Re:Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games? on Sunday May 08, 2022 @03:16PM (#31307221)
I've been working on some free/libre open source software for 22 years designed to help people survive poverty and related conditions, such as homelessness, disability, illness, relationship abuse, emergencies, etc. It's called the Free Life Planner (FLP). The goal of FLP is to help people get on top of every security, such as food, water, financial, emotional, cyberphysical, etc etc. Its website is here: https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner I really need to rewrite the introduction to the FLP GitHub page since it doesn't explain the concept well enough, although the following use case does explain it more: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/homeless-story.html If anyone is interested in collaborating that would be fantastic, there's already a Vagrant image of FLP (but it's heavily redacted and out of date) available here: https://app.vagrantup.com/aindilis We're also working on finishing the installer for both FLP and the middleware that it runs on top of, called FRDCSA ( https://frdcsa.org ). The installer for FRDCSA when fixed up will be available here: https://github.com/aindilis/frdcsa-installer I would love to see a free/libre open source video game that used the tech involved.
There are also lots of MealMaster recipes available online at sites like this: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html
There is also Food Data Central and Nutritionix
I've been writing such a web-based self-hosted grocery and household management system for the last 6 (and depending at how you look at it - 20) years. It's a tough problem but well worth it. I share my system (which is very difficult to actually release) here in the hopes of giving people ideas, or if anyone wants to work with me. Just fixed a bug in the home inventory component, and am dreading working to integrate purchase management with shopping receipts (both online and local) with inventory. Very tough problem indeed:

https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner

https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner#a-few-screenca...