Sure, the Maybe Finance Fork, Has 15.3k Stars and 490 Open Issues

Sure, a community fork of the abandoned Maybe Finance personal-finance app, had 15.3k GitHub stars and 490 open issues on November 15, 2026, while the original it descends from sits read-only with 54.2k stars.

The gap between those two repositories is the story. The fork inherits the code and none of the company: Maybe's maintainers said in their final release that continuing the app "is not our best chance at paying back our investors and profiting as a company."

What Maybe Finance said when it stopped

Maybe's final release, v0.6.0, was published on July 24 and the repository was archived by its owner on July 27, 2025. The release post says "Maybe is pivoting to B2B financial forecasting and scenario planning" and that the team "will no longer be actively maintaining this repository."

The release called itself "a working, 'as-is' version of the software" and said the authors hoped "the OSS community can take this core engine and build some interesting use-cases on top of it." The release was published under the GitHub user zachgoll, whose name and job title the post does not give.

The licence is AGPL-3.0, and the README allows forks on conditions. A fork must keep the original licence, state that it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Maybe Finance Inc., and avoid the "Maybe" name and logo, which are trademarks. That condition is why the fork is called Sure.

What Sure is, and what it runs on

The we-promise/sure README opens with "This repository is a community fork of the now-abandoned Maybe Finance project." It says both projects are distributed under an AGPLv3 licence. The stack is Ruby, PostgreSQL and Redis, and the repository layout and deploy templates point to a Rails application with Sidekiq workers.

Self-hosting is supported through Docker, with a guide at docs/hosting/docker.md. One-click templates exist for Render, PikaPods and Hostim. According to the README, Sure "can be accessed from a browser, the macOS desktop app, the mobile app, API clients, and LLM agents", and its screenshot shows cash flow, net worth and spending views plus an AI assistant.

Metric	Maybe Finance	Sure
Stars	54.2k	15.3k
Forks	5.7k	1.3k
Status	Archived July 27, 2025	4,177 commits on main

1. Maybe Finance (archived)54.2 thousand stars
2. Sure15.3 thousand stars

Source: GitHub repository pages for maybe-finance/maybe and we-promise/sure, accessed 2026-11-15

Where the AI setting sends your data

The Render templates come in three variants: No AI, Simple AI and External AI. The README says No AI leaves the AI tokens blank, Simple AI prompts for an OpenAI token, and External AI connects to an OpenClaw gateway managed by AlphaClaw. Picking the second or third variant means choosing a third party that sees whatever the assistant is asked about.

The README does not describe how data is stored beyond linking to a security policy, and it does not mention bank-account syncing. It also carries its own warning: "With data-heavy apps, inevitably, there are performance issues." A public Skylight dashboard tracks slow requests on the demo site.

What the stars do and do not show

Stars are attention, not usage. The fork's page shows 490 open issues and 446 open pull requests against 4,177 commits on main, and the README names no individual maintainers, only the organisation, we-promise. The releases section of the repository page was empty when fetched, so there is no tagged version to pin.

That matters for anyone pointing a self-hosted copy at real financial records. Other community-maintained projects on the open-source beat, such as the Lonewolf XMPP server, are small and self-hostable too, but a finance app holds data people cannot easily replace. Company-backed releases like Alibaba's OpenCodeReview at least have a named owner behind them. Sure has an organisation page and a Discord server.

The next observable signal is the Releases tab: when Sure publishes its first tagged version, users get something to pin.