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 # Typesense
 
-Typesense is an open source search engine for building a delightful search experience.
+Typesense is an open source search engine for building delightful search experiences.
 
 - **Typo tolerance:** Handles typographical errors out-of-the-box
 - **Tunable ranking:** Tailor your search results to perfection
 - **Blazing fast:** Meticulously designed and optimized for speed
 - **Simple and delightful:** Simple API, delightful out-of-the-box experience
 
-## Development
+## Installation
 
-### Building from source
+We publish [binary packages](https://github.com/wreally/typesense/releases) for Linux and OS X.
 
-Building on your machine:
+If you use Docker, you can also run Typesense from our official Docker image:
 
 ```
-$ ./build.sh [--clean]
+docker run -p 8108:8108 -v/tmp/typesense-data:/data typesense/typesense:0.8 --data-dir /data --api-key=Hu52dwsas2AdxdE --listen-port 8108
 ```
 
-Building on a Docker container:
+## Getting started
+
+A detailed getting started guide is on [Typesense website](https://typesense.org/intro). 
+
+Here's a quick example showcasing how you would create a collection, index a document and search it on Typesense. 
+
+Let's create a `companies` collection:
 
 ```
-$ ./docker-build.sh
+curl "${TYPESENSE_HOST}/collections" \
+       -X POST \
+       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+       -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}" \
+       -d '{
+             "name": "companies",
+             "fields": [
+               {"name": "company_name", "type": "string" },
+               {"name": "num_employees", "type": "int32" },
+               {"name": "country", "type": "string", "facet": true }
+             ],
+             "token_ranking_field": "num_employees"
+          }' 
 ```
 
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+Now, index a company document:
+
+```
+curl "${TYPESENSE_HOST}/collections/companies/documents" \
+       -X POST \
+       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+       -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}" \
+       -d '{
+            "id": "124",
+            "company_name": "Stark Industries",
+            "num_employees": 5215,
+            "country": "USA"
+          }'
+```
+
+Finally, let's search for the document we just indexed:
+
+```
+curl -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
+     "${TYPESENSE_HOST}/collections/companies/documents/search\
+     ?q=stark&query_by=company_name&filter_by=num_employees:>100\
+     &sort_by=num_employees:desc"
+```
+
+## Building from source
+
+**Building on your machine**
+
+Typesense requires the following dependencies: 
+
+* Snappy
+* zlib
+* OpenSSL (>=1.0.2)
+* curl
+* Compiler with good C++11 support (e.g. GCC >= 4.9)
+
+```
+$ ./build.sh [--clean] [--depclean]
+```
+
+**Building a Docker image**
+
+The Docker build script takes care of the required dependencies, so you don't need to install them separately:
+
+```
+$ TYPESENSE_IMG_VERSION=nightly ./docker-build.sh --build-deploy-image [--clean] [--depclean]
+```
+
+© 2016-2018 Wreally Studios Inc.
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