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-# make-comics
+<a href="https://make-comics.vercel.app">
+  <img alt="Make Comics" src="./public/og.png">
+  <h1 align="center">Make Comics</h1>
+</a>
+
+<p align="center">
+  Create comic books with AI. Generate stories, characters, and panels using advanced AI models.
+</p>
+
+## How AI Generates Comics
+
+The AI references previous pages as visual reference for coherence and uses character faces or images uploaded by the user for additional guidance in generating consistent comic panels.
+
+## Tech stack
+
+- [Next.js 16](https://nextjs.org/) with React 19 and Tailwind CSS
+- [Drizzle ORM](https://orm.drizzle.team/) with [Neon](https://neon.tech) PostgreSQL database
+- [Clerk](https://clerk.com/) for authentication
+- [Together AI](https://together.ai/) for LLM and image generation (Google Gemini/Flash and Meta Llama 3.1)
+- [AWS S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) for image storage
+- [Upstash Redis](https://upstash.com/) for rate limiting
+- [jsPDF](https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF) for PDF generation
+
+## Cloning & running
+
+1. Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/yourusername/make-comics`
+2. Create a `.env` file based on `.example.env` and add your API keys:
+   - **Together AI API key**: `TOGETHER_API_KEY=<your_together_ai_api_key>`
+   - **AWS S3 credentials**: `S3_UPLOAD_KEY`, `S3_UPLOAD_SECRET`, `S3_UPLOAD_BUCKET`, `S3_UPLOAD_REGION`
+   - **Database URL**: Use [Neon](https://neon.tech) to set up your PostgreSQL database: `DATABASE_URL=<your_database_url>`
+   - **Clerk keys**: `NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY`, `CLERK_SECRET_KEY`
+   - **Upstash Redis**: `UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL`, `UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN`
+3. Run `npm install` and `npm run dev` to install dependencies and run locally