Milkpod

Milkpod is an AI video transcription and Q&A workspace. Drop in a link or upload a file and get clean transcripts, highlights, and timestamped answers you can share with your team.

Product highlights

• Transcribe meetings, lectures, and interviews with timestamps and speaker labels.
• Ask questions and get answers with citations back to the source moments.
• Generate highlights, summaries, and action items for quick sharing.
• Search across your video library and export notes or clips.

Tech stack

• Next.js 16 App Router (apps/web)
• Elysia + Eden (apps/server, packages/api)
• Better Auth (packages/auth)
• Drizzle ORM + PostgreSQL (packages/db)
• Tailwind CSS + shadcn/ui
• Turborepo + pnpm

Local development

1. Install dependencies: pnpm install
2. Configure environment files:
   • cp apps/server/.env.example apps/server/.env
   • cp apps/web/.env.example apps/web/.env
3. Update values in the env files (DATABASE_URL, BETTER_AUTH_SECRET, etc.)
4. Push the schema: pnpm db:push
5. Start the dev stack: pnpm dev

More details live in SETUP.md.

Scripts

• pnpm dev - Start all apps in development mode
• pnpm dev:web - Start only the web application
• pnpm dev:server - Start only the API server
• pnpm build - Build all applications for production
• pnpm check-types - Type-check all packages
• pnpm db:push - Push schema changes to database
• pnpm db:studio - Open Drizzle Studio (database GUI)
• pnpm db:generate - Generate migrations
• pnpm db:migrate - Run migrations

Project structure

milkpod/
├── apps/
│   ├── web/         # Next.js frontend application
│   └── server/      # Elysia backend
├── packages/
│   ├── api/         # Elysia routes + Eden types
│   ├── auth/        # Better Auth configuration
│   ├── db/          # Drizzle schema and database utilities
│   └── config/      # Shared TypeScript configs

Deployment

Vercel (Web App)

1. Push your code to GitHub
2. Import the project in Vercel
3. Set the root directory to apps/web
4. Add environment variables
5. Deploy

Railway/Render (API Server)

1. Connect your repository
2. Set the root directory to apps/server
3. Add the DATABASE_URL environment variable
4. Deploy