# yyx990803/build-your-own-mint

Build your own personal finance analytics using Plaid, Google Sheets and CircleCI.

Repository: https://github.com/yyx990803/build-your-own-mint
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/build-your-own-mint
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-12-10T01:14:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2797, "days_push": 1363, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2538, forks 200 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:59.232022+00:00)

## What it is
A demo/tutorial project by Evan You showing how to build a personal finance analytics pipeline using Plaid bank data, Google Sheets, and CircleCI. It fetches transactions via the Plaid API, transforms them, and writes them to a Google Sheets spreadsheet.

## Use cases
- build my own mint.com-style personal finance tracker
- pull bank transactions into a google sheet automatically
- learn how to use the plaid api with node.js
- automate personal finance analytics
- sync bank transaction data to a spreadsheet on a schedule
- example of integrating plaid and google sheets apis

## When to choose
- you want a hands-on tutorial for wiring Plaid to Google Sheets
- you're comfortable editing JavaScript to customize transaction mapping
- you want a self-hosted alternative to Mint with full control over credentials

## When to avoid
- you need a polished, ready-to-use finance dashboard with UI
- you're unwilling to enter bank credentials into a small demo project
- you need production-grade security or long-term maintenance
- you don't want to depend on Google Sheets as a data store

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: etl, developer-tools, sdk
- domain: fintech, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: cli
- tags: personal-finance, plaid, google-sheets, circleci, tutorial, demo-project, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- yyx990803/build-your-own-mint (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:59.232022+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:25:12.122979+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yyx990803/build-your-own-mint (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:59.232022+00:00, sha 68cd0a1cd752)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.