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-# DumpIt — Your AI Second Brain
+
-DumpIt is an AI-powered knowledge vault for saved links, plain-text notes, and PDF documents. Save useful resources, organize them into collections, and ask questions across your private vault plus public shared resources with cited source cards.
+

-Built with **Next.js 14 (App Router)**, **TypeScript**, **Tailwind CSS**, **Firebase Auth & Firestore**, **Firebase Admin SDK**, **Google Gemini AI (RAG & Embeddings)**, **@sentry/nextjs**, and **@upstash/ratelimit**.
+### Save anything. Ask anything. Get answers from your own knowledge — not a stranger's AI.
----
+[](LICENSE.md)
+[](https://github.com/Rayan9064/dumpit/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[](https://nextjs.org)
+[](https://www.typescriptlang.org)
+[](CONTRIBUTING.md)
-## Features
+[**Live app**](https://www.dumpit.page) · [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) · [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) · [Docs](docs/)
-- **Multi-Format Capture:**
- - **Links:** Auto-enrichment of titles, descriptions, and tags via web scraping.
- - **Notes:** Plain-text ideas, code snippets, and structured thoughts.
- - **PDF Documents:** Fast in-memory text extraction for PDF uploads up to 10MB.
-- **AI Search & RAG (Ask DumpIt):**
- - `My Dump`: Query your private indexed vault.
- - `Shared`: Discover public resources saved by the community.
- - `All`: Search across your vault plus community shared resources.
- - Answers include exact citations and source cards.
-- **Organization & Curation:**
- - Collections, tags, search filtering, and custom public profiles (`/u/[username]`).
- - Cursor-based pagination on dashboard for high performance at scale.
- - Skeleton shimmer card loading states.
- - Duplicate resource detection.
-- **Enterprise Infrastructure & Performance:**
- - Sentry exception monitoring across Client, Server, and Edge runtimes.
- - Upstash Redis API rate limiting (60 req/min auth, 20 req/min public).
- - PostHog telemetry & product analytics.
- - Dynamic SEO generation via Next.js `robots.ts` and dynamic `sitemap.ts`.
- - Browser extension support (Chrome Extension).
+
---
-## How RAG Works
+DumpIt is an open-source, AI-powered knowledge vault. Save links, notes, and PDFs from wherever you already are — the web app, the browser extension, email, or your phone's share sheet — then ask questions in plain English and get cited answers grounded in what you actually saved, not hallucinated from general knowledge.
+
+## Table of contents
+
+- [Features](#features)
+- [Platform](#platform)
+- [How RAG works](#how-rag-works)
+- [Tech stack](#tech-stack)
+- [Repository structure](#repository-structure)
+- [Quick start](#quick-start)
+- [Environment variables](#environment-variables)
+- [Firestore vector indexes](#firestore-vector-indexes)
+- [Commands](#commands)
+- [Documentation](#documentation)
+- [Contributing](#contributing)
+
+## Features
+
+- **Capture from anywhere**
+ - Links — auto-enriched titles, descriptions, and tags via server-side scraping.
+ - Notes — plain-text ideas, code snippets, structured thoughts.
+ - PDFs — in-memory text extraction for uploads up to 10MB.
+ - Browser extension — one-click save, side-panel review, and text-selection capture (Chrome, Manifest V3).
+ - Mobile share sheet — share directly into DumpIt from any Android app (PWA, [Web Share Target](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/Reference/share_target)).
+ - Email-to-save — forward anything to `save@dumpit.page` (built; pending DNS/Resend dashboard setup on our end before it's reachable).
+- **AI search & cited Q&A**
+ - `My Dump` / `Shared` / `All` search scopes across your private vault and community-shared resources.
+ - Answers include inline citations and source cards you can verify.
+- **Organization**
+ - Collections, tags, filtering, cursor-based pagination, duplicate detection.
+ - Public profiles at `/u/[username]` with per-resource visibility control.
+- **Developer access**
+ - REST API secured by long-lived API keys (generate/revoke from Settings).
+ - [MCP server](dumpit-mcp/) — query and save to your vault directly from Claude Desktop or Cursor.
+- **Infrastructure**
+ - Sentry error monitoring (client, server, edge).
+ - Upstash Redis rate limiting on authenticated, public, and AI-query routes.
+ - Dodo Payments (Merchant of Record — handles global tax compliance automatically).
+
+## Platform
+
+| Surface | What it's for |
+|---|---|
+| **Web app** | Full dashboard — search, capture, collections, profile, settings. |
+| **[Browser extension](dumpit-extension/)** | One-click save from any tab without leaving the browser. |
+| **REST API** | Programmatic add/search/ask, authenticated with an API key from Settings. |
+| **[MCP server](dumpit-mcp/)** | `ask_vault`, `search_vault`, `save_to_vault` tools for Claude Desktop / Cursor. |
+| **Mobile share sheet** | Share a link straight into your vault from Android's native share menu. |
+
+## How RAG works
Saving a resource creates a `resources` document in Firestore. AI search relies on server-side background indexing:
-1. **Extraction:**
- - **For Links:** Fetches page content and extracts readable text.
- - **For PDFs:** Parses PDF binary in memory via `pdf-parse` and extracts plain text into `captured_text`.
- - **For Notes:** Uses the note content directly.
-2. **Chunking & Embedding:**
- - Splits text into contextual chunks.
- - Generates 768-dimensional vector embeddings using Google's Gemini Embedding API.
-3. **Storage & Search:**
- - Stores vectorized chunks in Firestore `resource_chunks`.
- - Executes vector similarity searches against user queries.
+1. **Extraction**
+ - Links — fetches page content and extracts readable text.
+ - PDFs — parses the binary in memory via `pdf-parse`.
+ - Notes / emails — uses the content directly.
+2. **Chunking & embedding** — splits text into contextual chunks, generates 768-dimensional vectors via Gemini's embedding model.
+3. **Storage & search** — stores vectors in Firestore `resource_chunks`, runs vector similarity search against user queries, and returns an answer with inline citations.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
- Input["Link / Note / PDF"] --> Extract["Extract Text (Fetch / pdf-parse)"]
+ Input["Link / Note / PDF / Email"] --> Extract["Extract Text (Fetch / pdf-parse)"]
Extract --> Chunk["Chunk Text"]
Chunk --> Embed["Gemini Embedding (768d)"]
Embed --> Store["Firestore resource_chunks"]
@@ -58,9 +88,40 @@ flowchart TD
Vector --> Answer["Gemini Answer with Citations"]
```
----
+## Tech stack
-## Quick Start
+| Layer | What |
+|---|---|
+| Framework | Next.js 14 (App Router), TypeScript |
+| Styling | Tailwind CSS — Zinc palette, Space Grotesk + Inter |
+| Auth | Firebase Auth (Google sign-in only) |
+| Database | Firebase Admin SDK + Firestore (incl. native vector search) |
+| AI | Google Gemini — embeddings & generation |
+| Rate limiting | Upstash Redis |
+| Error tracking | Sentry (client, server, edge) |
+| Email | Resend (inbound save-by-email) |
+| Payments | Dodo Payments (Merchant of Record) |
+| Deployment | Vercel (web app), Firebase (backend/db) |
+
+## Repository structure
+
+```
+app/ Next.js App Router pages and API routes
+ api/ Server-side route handlers
+ resources/ CRUD for saved items (links, notes, PDFs)
+ ai/ Search + RAG "ask" endpoints
+ webhooks/ Dodo Payments + Resend inbound-email webhooks
+ settings/api-keys/ API key generate/list/revoke
+ share/ Mobile share-sheet capture page
+ u/[username]/ Public user profile pages
+dumpit-extension/ Chrome extension (Manifest V3, separate package)
+dumpit-mcp/ MCP server for Claude Desktop / Cursor (separate package)
+docs/ Internal documentation
+public/ Static assets, PWA manifest
+types/ Shared TypeScript types
+```
+
+## Quick start
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Rayan9064/dumpit.git
@@ -72,20 +133,14 @@ npm run dev
Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000).
----
-
-## Chrome Extension
+To try the browser extension or MCP server locally, see their own READMEs: [`dumpit-extension/README.md`](dumpit-extension/README.md) · [`dumpit-mcp/README.md`](dumpit-mcp/README.md).
-DumpIt includes a Chrome extension for one-click link capturing, side-panel search, and text selection clipping. For setup instructions, see the [Extension README](dumpit-extension/README.md).
+## Environment variables
----
-
-## Environment Variables
-
-Configure your environment variables in `.env.local` (and in Vercel for production deployments):
+Configure in `.env.local` (and in Vercel for production):
```env
-# Firebase Client SDK (browser-safe)
+# Firebase client SDK (browser-safe)
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY=
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=
@@ -105,19 +160,27 @@ GEMINI_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash
GEMINI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=gemini-embedding-001
# App URL & SEO
-NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=https://dumpit-three.vercel.app
+NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=https://www.dumpit.page
-# Monitoring & Rate Limiting (Optional)
-NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN=
+# Rate limiting
UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL=
UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN=
+
+# Monitoring & analytics (optional)
+NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN=
NEXT_PUBLIC_POSTHOG_KEY=
NEXT_PUBLIC_POSTHOG_HOST=
-```
----
+# Resend (email-to-save)
+RESEND_API_KEY=
+RESEND_INBOUND_WEBHOOK_SECRET=
-## Firestore Vector Indexes
+# Dodo Payments
+DODO_PAYMENTS_API_KEY=
+DODO_WEBHOOK_SECRET=
+```
+
+## Firestore vector indexes
Ask DumpIt requires Firestore vector indexes for semantic search:
@@ -140,8 +203,6 @@ gcloud firestore indexes composite create \
--field-config=vector-config='{"dimension":"768","flat": "{}"}',field-path=embedding
```
----
-
## Commands
```bash
@@ -151,8 +212,6 @@ npm run build # Build production bundle
npm test # Run Vitest unit tests
```
----
-
## Documentation
- [Deployment Guide](docs/deployment.md)
@@ -161,3 +220,7 @@ npm test # Run Vitest unit tests
- [API Spec](docs/api-spec.md)
- [Testing Guide](docs/testing.md)
- [Firebase Setup](FIREBASE_SETUP.md)
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for setup and workflow, and [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for community guidelines. DumpIt is [MIT licensed](LICENSE.md).