Malak

Meet Malak, an opensource performance insights management tool for startups and their investors.

Angelist Raise, Carta and other tools are awesome to communicate with investors. However, these tools are very limited in terms of control and customization. Or can cost thousands of $ to run and still be limited to certain features subsets. Or have your data being used to cross-sell to other businesses for their own gain

That's where Malak comes in. Self-hosted on your own infra or hosted by us. White-label by design. Ready to be deployed on your own domain. Own full control of your data and company state if you decide to selfhost.

• Features
• FAQs
• Self hosting
  • Frontend
  • Migrations
  • Backend

Features

Note

Hosted version available by mid March :)

• 100% Opensource. Own your own data, metrics, and story
• Send investors' updates to anyone via email
• Manage metrics automatically from many sources. See Integrations
• Create, manage and share your decks.
• Manage your fundraising pipeline

Built With

• Golang
• Postgresql
• Redis
• NextJS
• Tailwind CSS
• Stripe ( optional )

Self-hosting

Migrations

malak migrate

Important

Everytime you upgrade the backend or re-download the binary/docker image, it makes sense to run the migrations again as migrations are usually added to support newer features or enhance existing ones

Backend

You can either download the raw binary or use our docker image. You can view a list of all available releases on Github.

The docker image is also available as docker pull ghcr.io/ayinke-llc/malak:version where version can be the version you want. The version can be in two formats:

• semver version number e.g: docker pull ghcr.io/ayinke-llc/malak:0.4.2
• commit hash e.g: docker pull ghcr.io/ayinke-llc/malak:101a434d

At the very minimum, your configuration needs to look like this:

Important

You can also use environment values to configure this in cloud environments using the syntax MALAK_. So for auth.google.client_id, you can use MALAK_AUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID

Your config.yml below:

auth:
  google:
    client_id: "GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID"
    client_secret: "GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET"
    redirect_uri: "GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI"
    is_enabled: true

  jwt:
    key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY

uploader:
  s3:
    access_key: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
    access_secret: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
    region: lagos-1
    endpoint: http://localhost:9000
    use_tls: false

email:
  provider: smtp # OR resend
  sender: email@yourdomain
  sender_name: Malak
  resend:
    api_key: RESEND_API_KEY
  smtp:
    host: localhost
    password: random
    username: random
    use_tls: false
    port: 9125

Important

The docker image runs the http server by default but if you are using the binary, you can run it with malak http

Plans are extremely important in Malak. Even though you are self hosting and not taking payments, you can still limit certain features for users on your instance. Every company/workspace must be have a plan.

You can view a complete list of all available configuration here.

Listing plans

malak plans list

Create a new plan

malak plans create

Set a default plan for newly created workspaces

malak plans set-default plan_id

Frontend

NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
NEXT_PUBLIC_MALAK_POSTHOG_KEY=
NEXT_PUBLIC_MALAK_ENABLE_POSTHOG=
NEXT_PUBLIC_MALAK_POSTHOG_HOST=
NEXT_PUBLIC_MALAK_TERMS_CONDITION_LINK=
NEXT_PUBLIC_MALAK_PRIVACY_POLICY_LINK=
NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN=
NEXT_PUBLIC_DECKS_DOMAIN=https://deck.yourdowmain
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPPORT_EMAIL=support@yourdomain

FAQs

Using Minio locally for S3

Buckets

You need to create two buckets:

• malak : for publicly available objects
• deck: Make sure this bucket is private. Items here should not be publicly available

Note

This bucket names are not hard-coded. They are just defaults, you can name your buckets however you choose to. Just add the bucket names correctly in your configuration

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Please make sure the buckets are publicly available. This allows images to be read correctly

Configure mc client

mc alias set malak http://localhost:9000 access secret
## this assumes you created a bucket in Minio called malak
mc stat malak/malak
mc share download --recursive malak/malak

This should return something like:

URL: http://localhost:9000/malak/575ca9e2-9782-439e-9a74-c0a8923c7e1e
Expire: 7 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds
Share: http://localhost:9000/malak/575ca9e2-9782-439e-9a74-c0a8923c7e1e?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=yy9Od9rfMjCX
I553bZKp%2F20240921%2Flagos-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240921T161000Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Sign
ature=b96a68d4d4b048d7e8092ff3c9241880f3d32d78ae85023e0abd68b681ed33bd

URL: http://localhost:9000/malak/CleanShot 2024-09-17 at 20.22.15.png
Expire: 7 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds
Share: http://localhost:9000/malak/CleanShot%202024-09-17%20at%2020.22.15.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=yy9Od9
rfMjCXI553bZKp%2F20240921%2Flagos-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240921T161000Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Am
z-Signature=6cc3487799e07e2de2681c024a842f81b189fc5968f1ed79b8e7760ef1c3019e

Viewing swagger docs

You need to first enable the dev swagger UI with the following config:

http:
  swagger:
    port: 9999
    ui_enabled: true

After which you can visit http://localhost:9999/swagger/