Deploy and Host robinwiki on Railway

robinwiki is an AI-powered second brain. You talk to your AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP); robinwiki listens in the background, extracts atomic ideas, classifies them into wikis, and builds a searchable knowledge base in Postgres. No manual organising.

About Hosting robinwiki

robinwiki runs as two services: a Node.js core that handles auth, the API, the MCP server, and the background pipeline that processes ingested content; and a Next.js wiki for browsing and editing. Storage is Postgres with the pgvector extension for embedding-based search. BullMQ on Redis runs the extraction and classification workers. You'll need an OpenRouter API key for the LLM calls. The server is single-user one operator, one deployment and refuses to boot in production until every required secret is set, so configuration is intentional rather than accidental.

Common Use Cases

Personal second brain capture thoughts during AI conversations, return to them later as structured, interconnected wikis.
Solo research workspace feed long documents, transcripts, or article dumps and let robinwiki extract atomic ideas and group them by topic.
Long-term project memory track decisions, beliefs, people, and projects across years without manual filing.

Dependencies for robinwiki Hosting

PostgreSQL 17 with the pgvector extension (HNSW indexes power semantic search)
Redis (BullMQ background workers)
OpenRouter API key (LLM extraction, classification, embeddings)

Deployment Dependencies

pgvector — https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
OpenRouter — https://openrouter.ai/
robinwiki source — https://github.com/withrobinhq/robinwiki

Implementation Details

Generate every required secret before deploying. robinwiki refuses to boot in production until each of these is set:

# 32+ byte hex secrets
openssl rand -hex 32   # BETTER_AUTH_SECRET
openssl rand -hex 32   # MASTER_KEY
openssl rand -hex 32   # KEY_ENCRYPTION_SECRET
openssl rand -hex 32   # RECOVERY_SECRET
openssl rand -hex 32   # JOB_SIGNING_SECRET

Plus: WIKI_ORIGIN (your wiki frontend URL, must start with https://), SERVER_PUBLIC_URL (your core API URL, also https://), INITIAL_USERNAME, INITIAL_PASSWORD, OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Postgres and Redis URLs are wired automatically by Railway.

Why Deploy robinwiki on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying robinwiki on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.