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@Hamerenoh on TrustPay · about 2 months ago

Built TrustPay, a real-time mobile money payment verification tool for
small merchants in Ethiopia. It listens for Telebirr and CBE Birr payment
SMS, parses the amount/payer/sender, and pushes it live to a secured
Firebase database and web dashboard.

The most challenging part was security — I had accidentally committed a
Firebase config file with API keys, and my database rules were wide open
by default. I fixed both: removed the exposed file, locked down the
database to require authentication, and added matching sign-in logic to
both the Android app and the web dashboard so they could still read/write
after the rules were secured.

I’m proud that this went from “works on my machine” to an actually secure,
publicly hostable project — including a live dashboard (hosted on GitHub
Pages) that groups transactions by day and splits totals between Telebirr
and CBE.

To test it: open the live dashboard link, sign in with the password
provided in the project description, and you’ll see real transaction data
grouped by day with running totals.

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@Hamerenoh on TrustPay · about 2 months ago

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Built the full SMS parsing pipeline for TrustPay — the Android app listens
for Telebirr and CBE Birr payment SMS, parses the amount/payer/sender, and
pushes it live to Firebase. This week I focused on securing it: added
Firebase Authentication so the database isn’t wide open, removed an
accidentally-committed config file with API keys, and rebuilt the web
dashboard to group transactions by day with separate running totals for
Telebirr vs CBE. Dashboard is now hosted live via GitHub Pages with a
password gate. Next: polish the README and start user-testing with the
actual shop.