# Hacktoberfest 2023

2023-09-26

At Ghostfolio, we are very excited to participate in Hacktoberfest for the second time, looking forward to connecting with new and enthusiastic open-source contributors. Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. Each October, open source maintainers from all over the world give extra attention to new contributors while guiding them through their first pull requests on GitHub. This year the event celebrates its 10th anniversary.

## About Ghostfolio

Ghostfolio is a modern web application for managing personal finances. The software aggregates your assets and empowers informed decision-making to help you balance your portfolio or plan for future investments.

Ghostfolio is written in TypeScript and organized as an Nx workspace, utilizing the latest framework releases. The backend is based on NestJS in combination with PostgreSQL as a database together with Prisma and Redis for caching. The frontend is built with Angular.

The software is used daily by a thriving global community. With over 2’600 stars on GitHub and 300’000+ pulls on Docker Hub, Ghostfolio has gained widespread recognition for its user-friendly experience and simplicity.

## How to contribute?

Each contribution can make a meaningful impact. Whether it involves implementing new features, resolving bugs, refactoring code, enhancing documentation, adding unit tests, or translating content into another language, you can actively shape our project.

Are you not yet familiar with our code base? That is not a problem. We have applied the label `hacktoberfest` to a few issues that are well suited for newcomers.

The official Hacktoberfest website provides some valuable resources for beginners to start contributing in open source.

## Get support

If you have further questions or ideas, please join our Slack community or get in touch on X @ghostfolio_.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Thomas from Ghostfolio

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