🦾Q3 2025 Bounty Challenge | Smart & Secure Banking

📅 Duration: 5 August – 30 September 2025 📍Submit here: Submission Form → 💬 Join the chat: #bounties Slack Channel

🧠 What's the Challenge?

Pick your track - or build for both!

Track
Description
Skill Level

Track 1: Banking in Your Pocket

Build a mobile automation or app to simplify a banking task

Beginner-friendly

Track 2: Card Shield Challenge

Use the card API to detect or prevent fraud in clever ways

Intermediate–Advanced

🎯 Goal: Use the Investec API and/or programmable card to make banking smarter, easier, or safer.

🛠️ Track 1: Banking in Your Pocket

Use tools like Tasker, MacroDroid, Shortcuts (iOS), FlutterFlow, or even ChatGPT (or your AI of choice) to create a tool that runs on your phone or device.

🧾 Example Ideas

  • A home screen widget that shows your balance

  • An automation that triggers a Slack or WhatsApp alert when you make a transaction

  • An SMS/Email parser that logs expenses to Google Sheets

  • A QR-based app to split group expenses after a restaurant meal

✅ No prior mobile dev experience needed — try something small and build it out!

🛡 Track 2: Card Shield Challenge

Use the programmable card API to create your own fraud protection logic. Inspired by Russell’s real-life story, this track is all about custom card rules.

🔐 Example Ideas

  • Block all foreign transactions by default (based on country codes)

  • Require dual approval before any transaction over R1,000

  • Auto-disable card after 3 international charges in 5 minutes

  • Use merchant codes to allow/disallow spending in certain categories (e.g. no gambling)

🔧 Need inspiration? Check out:

📦 Submission Guidelines

🧾 Requirement
✔️ What to Do

Declare Participation

Say “I’m in!” in #bounties

GitHub Repo

Share your working code via a public repo

README

Include setup instructions and how your solution works

License

Must be MIT Licensed

Demo (Optional)

Screenshots, videos, or gifs are welcome!

Knowledge File

Add a ./knowledge file with tips, gotchas or learnings (optional but awesome)

🎁 Rewards

Everyone who submits a valid build will receive:

  • 👕 Exclusive Investec Dev Swag

  • 🚀 Shoutout in the Community Newsletter

  • 🏆 Top picks featured on the Community GitHub

And of course - eternal community glory.

🙋 Need Help?

  • Ask anything in #bounties

  • Pair up with another dev

  • Chat with a Community Champion for guidance or reviews

🏁 How to Participate

  1. Say I’m in! in #bounties on Slack

  2. Build something for either Track 1 or Track 2 (or both!)

  3. Submit your project by 30 September 2025 via this form: 👉 Submit Your Build

✨ Let’s Build Together

Whether you're building your first app, or your tenth programmable card rule, this challenge is for you.

Join us in making banking smart, secure, and yours. Let’s build something awesome this quarter. 🌱

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