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docs: .env.example lacks setup instructions for self-host required variables

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Inizia da .env.example e confronta le relative variabili con i requisiti di docker-compose.selfhost.yml. Aggiungi indicazioni concise sulla generazione delle variabili richieste o sui relativi provider, quindi verifica che tutte le 11 variabili siano documentate correttamente, incluso l'avviso per la produzione relativo a IP_HASH_SALT e il link release-tags di IMAGE_TAG.

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Descrizione

docker compose -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml up -d hard-requires 11 env vars
(IMAGE_TAG, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD, REDIS_PASSWORD,
DASHBOARD_URL, API_URL, BASKET_URL, BETTER_AUTH_SECRET,
DATABUDDY_ENCRYPTION_KEY, IP_HASH_SALT, AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY), but
.env.example doesn't explain how to obtain or generate most of them.

Self-hosters currently hit Set X in your environment errors one by one and
have to guess. Notably IP_HASH_SALT — leaving it empty falls back to a
public default salt in production, weakening IP anonymization.

Suggest adding a short comment per variable: an openssl rand command for the
secrets/passwords, console links + callback URLs for OAuth/Slack/Resend keys,
and the GHCR tags page for IMAGE_TAG.

before
CLICKHOUSE_URL="http://default:@localhost:8123/databuddy_analytics"
# Required by DQL. This must use the separately provisioned dql_user account;
# never point it at the application/admin ClickHouse credentials.
CLICKHOUSE_DQL_URL="http://dql_user:databuddy_dql_dev_password@localhost:8123/databuddy_analytics"
DATABASE_URL="postgres://databuddy:databuddy_dev_password@localhost:5432/databuddy"
REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"
BULLMQ_REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"

# Required only by docker-compose.selfhost.yml. Use URL-safe passwords and make
# the local database URLs above use the same credentials before initialization.
IMAGE_TAG=""
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=""
CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=""
REDIS_PASSWORD=""

# Public URLs. Local development uses built-in localhost defaults when blank.
DASHBOARD_URL=""
API_URL=""
BASKET_URL=""
LINKS_URL=""

# Baked into the dashboard browser bundle. Set these before production builds.
NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_BASKET_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_LINKS_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_STATUS_URL=""

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=""
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=""
SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY=""

BETTER_AUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000"
# Required by docker-compose.selfhost.yml. Generate independent random values.
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET="generate-a-random-32-byte-base64-secret"
DATABUDDY_ENCRYPTION_KEY=""
IP_HASH_SALT=""

AUTUMN_SECRET_KEY=""

# Local dev default. Root build/start scripts force NODE_ENV=production.
NODE_ENV=development

GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=""
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=""

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=""
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=""

RESEND_API_KEY=""
# Required when RESEND_API_KEY is set; use a domain verified in Resend.
EMAIL_FROM="Databuddy <[email protected]>"
ALERTS_EMAIL_FROM="Databuddy <[email protected]>"
NEXT_PUBLIC_OPENAI_ADS_PIXEL_ID=""

# Slack bot / AI agent adapter
SLACK_APP_TOKEN=""
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=""
SLACK_CLIENT_ID=""
SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET=""
SLACK_REDIRECT_URI=""

# Not Necessary unless using blog
MARBLE_API_KEY=
MARBLE_WORKSPACE_KEY=
MARBLE_API_URL=https://api.marblecms.com/v1

# Not Necessary unless using changelog
NOTRA_API_KEY=

# Superlog OTLP logs export. When set, evlog drains in api/basket/insights/slack/uptime
# also ship wide events to https://intake.superlog.sh/v1/logs.
SUPERLOG_API_KEY=""
after
CLICKHOUSE_URL="http://default:@localhost:8123/databuddy_analytics"
# Required by DQL. This must use the separately provisioned dql_user account;
# never point it at the application/admin ClickHouse credentials.
CLICKHOUSE_DQL_URL="http://dql_user:databuddy_dql_dev_password@localhost:8123/databuddy_analytics"
DATABASE_URL="postgres://databuddy:databuddy_dev_password@localhost:5432/databuddy"
REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"
BULLMQ_REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"

# Required by docker-compose.selfhost.yml. Use URL-safe passwords and make
# the local database URLs above use the same credentials before initialization.
# Generate each password with: openssl rand -base64 24 | tr -d '/+='
# Release tags: https://github.com/databuddy-analytics/Databuddy/pkgs/container/databuddy-api
IMAGE_TAG=""
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=""
CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=""
REDIS_PASSWORD=""

# Public URLs. Local development uses built-in localhost defaults when blank.
DASHBOARD_URL=""
API_URL=""
BASKET_URL=""
LINKS_URL=""

# Baked into the dashboard browser bundle. Set these before production builds.
NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_BASKET_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_LINKS_URL=""
NEXT_PUBLIC_STATUS_URL=""

# Vercel AI Gateway, required by the insights service: https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=""
# Firecrawl — web scraping for insights
#   https://www.firecrawl.dev → API keys
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=""

# Supermemory — long-term memory for insights
#   https://console.supermemory.ai
SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY=""

BETTER_AUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000"
# Required by docker-compose.selfhost.yml. Generate independent random values.
# Generate with: openssl rand -base64 32
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=""
# Generate with: openssl rand -base64 32
DATABUDDY_ENCRYPTION_KEY=""
# Salts hashed visitor IPs. Never leave empty in production — the code falls
# back to a public default salt. Generate with: openssl rand -base64 24 | tr -d '/+='
IP_HASH_SALT=""

AUTUMN_SECRET_KEY=""

# Local dev default. Root build/start scripts force NODE_ENV=production.
NODE_ENV=development

# GitHub: https://github.com/settings/developers (callback: $BETTER_AUTH_URL/api/auth/callback/github)
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=""
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=""

# Google: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials (redirect: $BETTER_AUTH_URL/api/auth/callback/google)
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=""
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=""

# https://resend.com/api-keys
RESEND_API_KEY=""
# Required when RESEND_API_KEY is set; use a domain verified in Resend.
EMAIL_FROM="Databuddy <[email protected]>"
ALERTS_EMAIL_FROM="Databuddy <[email protected]>"
NEXT_PUBLIC_OPENAI_ADS_PIXEL_ID=""

# Slack bot / AI agent adapter: https://api.slack.com/apps
SLACK_APP_TOKEN=""
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=""
SLACK_CLIENT_ID=""
SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET=""
SLACK_REDIRECT_URI=""

# Not Necessary unless using blog
MARBLE_API_KEY=
MARBLE_WORKSPACE_KEY=
MARBLE_API_URL=https://api.marblecms.com/v1

# Not Necessary unless using changelog
NOTRA_API_KEY=

# Superlog OTLP logs export. When set, evlog drains in api/basket/insights/slack/uptime
# also ship wide events to https://intake.superlog.sh/v1/logs.
SUPERLOG_API_KEY=""

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