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

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.

• 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.

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 multi-currency support.
2. Add your API key to your .env file.
3. Set the currencies you'd like to support in the .env file.
4. Run rake currencies:seed
5. Run rake exchange_rates:sync

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.

Please visit our Mac dev setup guide.

Please visit our Linux dev setup guide.

Please visit our Windows dev setup guide.

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.

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!

Our long term goal is to make self-hosting as easy as possible. That said, during these early stages of building the product, we are focusing our efforts on development.

We will update this section as we get closer to an initial release.

Please see our guide on self hosting here.

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