maybe

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maybe-finance/maybe

Maybe: The personal finance app for everyone

Get involved: Discord • Website • Issues

Backstory

We spent the better part of 2021/2022 building a personal finance + wealth management app called, Maybe. Very full-featured, including an “Ask an Advisor” feature which connected users with an actual CFP/CFA to help them with their finances (all included in your subscription).

The business end of things didn’t work out, and so we shut things down mid-2023.

We spent the better part of $1,000,000 building the app (employees + contractors, data providers/services, infrastructure, etc.).

We’re now reviving the product as a fully open-source project. The goal is to let you run the app yourself, for free, and use it to manage your own finances and eventually offer a hosted version of the app for a small monthly fee.

Maybe Hosting

There are 2 primary ways to use the Maybe app:

Managed (easiest) - we’re in alpha and release invites in our Discord
Self-host with Docker

Contributing

Before contributing, you’ll likely find it helpful to understand context and general vision/direction.

Once you’ve done that, please visit our contributing guide to get started!

Performance Issues

With data-heavy apps, inevitably, there are performance issues. We’ve set up a public dashboard showing the problematic requests, along with the stacktraces to help debug them.

Any contributions that help improve performance are very much welcome.

https://oss.skylight.io/app/applications/XDpPIXEX52oi/recent/6h/endpoints

Local Development Setup

If you are trying to self-host the Maybe app, stop here. You should read this guide to get started.

The instructions below are for developers to get started with contributing to the app.

Requirements

See .ruby-version file for required Ruby version
PostgreSQL >9.3 (ideally, latest stable version)

After cloning the repo, the basic setup commands are:

cd maybe
cp .env.local.example .env.local
bin/setup
bin/dev

# Optionally, load demo data
rake demo_data:default

And visit http://localhost:3000 to see the app. You can use the following credentials to log in (generated by DB seed):

Email: user@maybe.local
Password: password

For further instructions, see guides below.

Multi-currency support

If you’d like multi-currency support, there are a few extra steps to follow.

Sign up for an API key at Synth. It’s a Maybe product and the free plan is sufficient for basic multi-currency support.
Add your API key to your .env file.

Setup Guides

Mac dev setup guide
Linux dev setup guide
Windows dev setup guide
Dev containers - visit this guide to learn more

Repo Activity

Copyright & license

Maybe is distributed under an AGPLv3 license. " Maybe" is a trademark of Maybe Finance, Inc.

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