Maybe/README.md

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Maybe: The OS for your personal finances

Get involved: Discord • Website • Issues

If you're looking for the previous React codebase, you can find it at maybe-finance/maybe-archive.

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.

Self Hosting

You can find detailed setup guides for self hosting here.

One-Click Render deploy (recommended)

1. Click the button above
2. Follow the instructions in the Render self-hosting guide

Local Development Setup

Requirements

• Ruby >3 (see Gemfile)
• PostgreSQL >9.3 (ideally, latest stable version)

After cloning the repo, the basic setup commands are:

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

# Optionally, load demo data
rake demo_data:reset

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.

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

Setup Guides

Dev Container (optional)

This is 100% optional and meant for devs who don't want to worry about installing requirements manually for their platform. You can follow this guide to learn more about Dev Containers.

If you run into could not connect to server errors, you may need to change your .env's DB_HOST environment variable value to db to point to the Postgres container.

Mac

Please visit our Mac dev setup guide.

Linux

Please visit our Linux dev setup guide.

Windows

Please visit our Windows dev setup guide.

Testing Emails

In development, we use letter_opener to automatically open emails in your browser. When an email sends locally, a new browser tab will open with a preview.

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!

Repo Activity

Copyright & license

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