# Hacktoberfest 2024

2024-09-24

At Ghostfolio, we are very excited to join Hacktoberfest for the third time and look forward to connecting with new, enthusiastic open-source contributors. Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of all things open-source: projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. Every October, open source maintainers around the globe dedicate extra time to support new contributors while guiding them through their first pull requests on GitHub.

## Introducing Ghostfolio: Personal Finance Dashboard

Ghostfolio is a modern web application for managing personal finances. It aggregates your assets and helps you make informed decisions to balance your portfolio or plan future investments.

The software is fully 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 OSS project counting more than 100 contributors is used daily by its growing global community. With over 4’000 stars on GitHub and 800’000+ pulls on Docker Hub, Ghostfolio has gained widespread recognition for its user-friendly experience and simplicity.

## How you can make an impact

Every contribution can make a difference. 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.

Not familiar with our codebase yet? No problem! We have labeled a few issues with `hacktoberfest` that are well suited for newcomers.

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

## Connect with us

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

We look forward to collaborating.
Thomas from Ghostfolio

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