Nairobi

CreationsBusiness2024

Moneyfest Finance

A Kenyan fintech startup that helps young, ambitious people understand, manage and automate their money.

Role Engineering · Architecture · Product

  • NestJS
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Vue.js
  • Quasar
  • Firebase
  • Jest
  • Vitest
  • Cypress
Moneyfest Finance logo

I spent two years on this with a small team: two engineers and one designer who also built the frontend. I led architecture and product as well as writing code, and talked to about twenty customers a week. What they told me became the roadmap.

There are three pieces. A marketing site at moneyfest.finance, a web app at app.moneyfest.finance, and a native Android app built with Capacitor. M-Pesa, escrow, subscriptions and merchant tools all run on a NestJS and Postgres backend, tested with Jest, Vitest and Cypress.