BrieflyAI

AI-powered PDF summarization SaaS that transforms lengthy PDFs into clear, structured, easy-to-read summaries in seconds.

Live: https://briefly-ai-project.vercel.app Repo: https://github.com/vanshikhaBhardwaj07/BrieflyAI

Features

• PDF upload — direct-to-storage uploads via UploadThing, supporting files up to 32MB.
• AI summarization — extracted PDF text is sent to Google's Gemini API (gemini-2.5-flash) with a structured prompt, returning a markdown-formatted summary with contextual emojis.
• Authentication — sign-in and sign-up handled by Clerk.
• Payments — subscription/upgrade flow via Razorpay.
• Serverless Postgres — summaries and user data stored in Neon.

Tech Stack

Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, Tailwind CSS v4 Backend: Next.js Server Actions, PDF parsing (pdf-parse) AI: Google Gemini API, LangChain Database: PostgreSQL (Neon, serverless) Auth: Clerk Payments: Razorpay File uploads: UploadThing Deployment: Vercel

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You'll need accounts/API keys for: Neon (Postgres), Clerk, Google AI Studio (Gemini), Razorpay, and UploadThing.

Setup

npm install

Create a .env.local file with:

DATABASE_URL=
GEMINI_API_KEY=
RAZORPAY_KEY_ID=
RAZORPAY_KEY_SECRET=
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=<img width="1717" height="843" alt="Screenshot 2026-09-06 225139" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d6bc7c67-3844-4e5f-8fd5-7fb25948e66a" />

CLERK_SECRET_KEY=
UPLOADTHING_TOKEN=

Run the dev server:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

Deployment

Deployed on Vercel. Push to main to deploy.