About Ideas Now

aboutideasnow.com indexes the /about, /ideas, and /now pages of 1000s of personal websites, and lets you search across them. The purpose is to help you find interesting people and talk to them.

If you want to help improve the website, please open a Github issue!

Code structure

This project uses Turborepo with a number of packages:

• apps/web: A SvelteKit web app for the aboutideasnow.com website
• apps/api: A Node.js server to run periodic website scrapes
• packages/core: Shared util functions and the Prisma Postgres database config

Installation

• Create .env files in apps/api, apps/web, and packages/core (look at the .env.example files)
• pnpm install to install the dependencies

Development

• pnpm dev to run all apps
• cd packages/core && pnpm generate/migrate to regenerate the database types after changes, or to apply them to the database

Deployment

• Create a Postgres database (e.g. via Supabase), and use its connection string as the DATABASE_URL secret in the following deployments.
• Deploy the web app JavaScript build. If using Vercel, you'll have to override the CI/CD install command with pnpm install --unsafe-perm so it runs the packages/core postinstall step. It correctly fills in all other steps automatically.
• Deploy the api app using Docker (from the root monorepo context). This repo already has a Github action to automatically deploy to fly.io.

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