The Inflation Price Is Right
An HP-35 cost $395 in 1972. What is that in today's money?
You are shown a real product, the year it launched and what it cost then. You type what you think that is in today's money and lock it in. Thirty-eight items, from the first scientific calculator you could put in a pocket to a PlayStation 5. The conversion is not a made-up multiplier: it runs on the US CPI-U series (CUUR0000SA0, all items, city average, not seasonally adjusted) fetched from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is public domain government data, with 2024 as the base year. That is the whole reason the game is worth playing rather than arguing with.
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The game is a text input and a slider's worth of logic. The work is the data: 38 items with a real launch price and a real year, and a CPI series fetched from the Bureau of Labor Statistics rather than a multiplier someone picked. A deck flagged approximate cannot pass a production build in this repo, which is the rule that keeps a game like this honest.
- The Inflation Price Is Right: real CPI, real prices
- StatClash: production build-out
- StatClash is YouTube only; fix a background-tab deadlock
- Rework web prototypes into one repo with a shared engine
- Initial commit
Every line above is a real commit from this app's repository, on the date it was made. Build chores and merge commits are filtered out.