Talli

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When does the money come, and how much? Talli answers that for people on BC income assistance.

It reads BC Self-Serve for you and shows income, payment dates, PWD application status and government messages in one place. Free, always.

Features

• Reads BC Self-Serve. Credentials are encrypted per session
• Four tabs: Home, Calendar, Status, Messages
• A countdown to the next payment, and what you're earning per hour until it lands
• Recent payments as a bar chart, plus year to date
• PWD and DTC application timelines, with report history
• A calendar of what's coming
• Messages, with read state synced to the server
• Account panel: BCeID, program, SIN masked
• A filing-window banner on days 1 to 5 of each month
• File the monthly report with a stored PIN
• Paid and report status that survives reloads (Vercel Blob)
• English, French, Chinese, Punjabi. One string source feeds the web i18next bundle and the Xcode String Catalog, with Intl for CAD and dates. Benefit strings are flagged for human or DeepL review
• Dark mode follows the system
• Installs as a PWA, works offline
• An iOS app: parchment palette, orange accent, pixel-art avatar, settings top right

Design

DM Sans for body, Fraunces for headings. The portfolio palette: #ffffff light, #1a1a1a dark, blue #5B9BD5 accent. A 430px shell centered on desktop. iOS matches: solid cards, blue accents, a node-graph avatar drawn with Core Graphics.

Run

npm install && npm start

Open http://localhost:3000. Copy .env.example to .env.

Deploy: push to main. GitHub Actions ships it on every push (.github/workflows/deploy.yml).

License

MIT 2026 Joshua Trommel

This Week / This Month

This week

• Watch iOS v3.5.6 clear App Store review (submitted 2026-07-19: login/splash theme fix, Status Messages removed, What's New truncation fix, dynamic CRA dates)
• Fix Xcode Cloud workflow pointing at old Tally.xcodeproj
• Avatar persistence bug (avatarUrl not rehydrated)

This month

• macOS App Store submission (app record + mac_beta upload)
• Sync mobile/web countdown feature gap
• Rework increasing-payment-per-hour model (lump sum, not accrual)

Roadmap

• Avatar still does not persist across reloads (avatarUrl not rehydrated on load)
• Sync mobile and web: web is missing the countdown the mobile app already has
• Improve countdown functionality and UI
• Rework the increasing-payment-per-hour model: pay is a monthly lump sum, so either remove the increasing-accrual visual or redesign it to read as a steady rate paid out monthly

App Store submission (free, keep BC Self-Serve auto-login)

Talli is free. The people who use it are on income assistance. Never paywall it. It's the flagship, not a revenue line.

• Fix Xcode Cloud workflow: still points at old Tally.xcodeproj, needs repoint to Talli.xcodeproj in Manage Workflows
• Mac TestFlight: fastlane mac_beta lane added 2026-06-21, archive builds clean, but upload fails, no macOS app record exists yet in App Store Connect for com.heyitsmejosh.tally.mac. Create the app record (one-time, manual) then re-run fastlane mac_beta in macos/fastlane.

macOS companion

• App icon still shows generic placeholder in the Dock, stale LaunchServices/Dock icon cache. Fix: clean rebuild, then killall Dock and/or qlmanage -r cache.
• macOS screenshot captured (macos/fastlane/screenshots/mac/1-main.png, 2026-08-31).

Whitepaper

Technical whitepaper

API and agent tools

docs/API.md lists the HTTP surface and the WebMCP tools Talli registers on document.modelContext. An agent can read benefit status and payments and, with your say-so, file the monthly report.

Credentials never pass through a tool. No tool sets the PIN. submit_monthly_report takes no SIN, phone or PIN. tools/test-webmcp.js enforces both and runs first in npm test.

Architecture