diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 18602345..d28b5d11 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,27 +1,36 @@ maybe_hero -# Maybe: The personal finance app for everyone +# ~Maybe~Sure: The personal finance app for everyone Get -involved: [Discord](https://link.maybe.co/discord) • [Website](https://maybefinance.com) • [Issues](https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/issues) +involved: [Discord](https://link.maybe.co/discord) • [Website](https://maybefinance.com) • [Issues](https://github.com/we-promise/sure/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 Maybe Finance team 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. +The business end of things didn't work out, and so they 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 +Having spent the better part of $1,000,000 building the app (employees + +contractors, data providers/services, infrastructure, etc.) they decided to +revive the product as a fully open-source project. The goal was 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. +Which they did. Offer a hosted version for a short while. + +That didn't work either (well, the "making it a sustainable B2C business" part +didn't) so here we are hosting a community maintained fork hoping to keep the +codebase alive and who knows what else will come next. + +Join us? + +[^^^ STOPPED EDITING HERE ^^^] + ## Maybe Hosting There are 2 primary ways to use the Maybe app: