Welcome to our blog

How we’re making Chip happen

We’re Chip, the automatic savings app. Our mission is to make people’s goals happen and help them feel good about their money.

We’re automating finances. We make it happen, whether ‘it’ is a wedding, a holiday, or a house deposit, whatever it is, we help people achieve their financial goals and feel good.

We’re building an app that uses your transaction data to automate your money stuff. Right now we intelligently stash money away for you, but we’ll do more in the future.

This blog is where we’ll write about the tech we use to build Chip, but we’ll also touch on everything that makes a high-growth UK FinTech tick.

The team is growing fast

After breaking crowdfund records in November 2018 Chip has been growing fast, hiring several developers, QAs and UX designers. As well as a content specialist (i.e. me) and a few other key roles to support marketing and customer success.

With this growing young team comes a lot of ambition, enthusiasm and big ideas, so we thought we’d use this blog as a place to give these thoughts some space.

Anyway, take a look at some of the faces you’ll be hearing from below, a few of them are quite clever.

What we’ll be covering

From the tech and product perspective, we plan to write about:

Machine Learning, PHP, Node, JavaScript, React, Monolith to Microservices, Static Site Generators, Swift, Go, Product Philosophy, Docker, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Jira, Atlassian Tools, Dry Tests, Data Science, Hackathons and much more besides…

But we’ll also write about the challenges of growing a start-up, managing customer success, and creating a company culture.

And of course we’ve got some modest ambitions to tackle the thorny issues in our economy and society that we think Chip in particular (and FinTech in general) can address.

Watch this space. Big things are coming.