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+# Maybe: Your personal financial assistant
+
+Maybe aims to be a personal financial assistant, helping you manage your money, make investments and grow your wealth.
+
+We're aiming to be hyper-transparent, fully open-source and community-driven.
+
+This codebase is currently in a very early stage of development, and is not product-ready yet. It has a lot of "leftovers" from an early prototype (which was not open-source).
+
+## Codebase
+
+The codebase is vanilla [Rails](https://rubyonrails.org/), [Sidekiq](https://sidekiq.org/) w/ [Redis](https://redis.io/), [Puma](http://puma.io/), and [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/). Quite a simple setup.
+
+## Setup
+
+You'll need:
+
+- ruby >3 (specific version is in `Gemfile`)
+- postgresql (if using stock `config/database.yml`)
+
+```shell
+cd maybe
+bundle install
+rails db:setup
+```
+
+You can then run the rails web server:
+
+```shell
+bin/dev
+```
+
+And visit [http://localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000)
+
+## External Services
+
+Currently the app relies on a few external services:
+
+- [Plaid](https://plaid.com) for bank account linking
+- [Ntropy](https://www.ntropy.com) for transaction enrichment
+- [OpenAI](https://openai.com) for natural language processing
+- [TwelveData](https://twelvedata.com) for stock market data
+- [Polygon](https://polygon.io) for stock market data
+- [ScrapingBee](https://www.scrapingbee.com) for web scraping
+
+The goal is to eventually move away from these services and bring everything in-house as much as possible, but for the app to fully function, you'll need API keys from those services.
+
+You can find the necessary API keys in `.env.example`, which you can copy to `.env` and fill in the values.
+
+## Contributing
+
+It's still very early days for this so your mileage will vary here and lots of things will break.
+
+But almost any contribution will be beneficial at this point. Check the [current Issues](https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/issues) to see where you can jump in!
+
+If you've got an improvement, just send in a pull request!
+
+1. Fork it
+2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
+3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
+4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
+5. Create new Pull Request
+
+If you've got feature ideas, simply [open a new issues](https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/issues/new)!
+
+## Community
+
+- Join the conversation in our [Discord](https://discord.gg/rDZFvtGcxx)
+- Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/maybe)