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@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space.
 
 To run Lychee, everything you need is a web-server with PHP 5.5 or later and a MySQL-Database. Follow the instructions to install Lychee on your server. [Installation »](docs/Installation.md)
 
+## Nitrous Quickstart
+
+Create a free development environment for this Lychee project in the cloud on [Nitrous.io](https://www.nitrous.io) by clicking the button below.
+
+<a href="https://www.nitrous.io/quickstart">
+  <img src="https://nitrous-image-icons.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart.png" alt="Nitrous Quickstart" width=142 height=34>
+</a>
+
+Simply access your site via the `Preview > 3000` link in the IDE.
+
 ## How to use
 
 You can use Lychee right after the installation. Here are some advanced features to get the most out of it.
@@ -73,4 +83,4 @@ Take a look at the [FAQ](docs/FAQ.md) if you have problems. Discovered a bug? Pl
 
 ## Donate
 
-I am working hard on continuously developing and maintaining Lychee. Please consider making a donation via [Flattr](https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=electerious&url=http%3A%2F%2Flychee.electerious.com&title=Lychee&category=software) or PayPal (from [our site](http://lychee.electerious.com/)) to keep the project going strong and me motivated.
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+I am working hard on continuously developing and maintaining Lychee. Please consider making a donation via [Flattr](https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=electerious&url=http%3A%2F%2Flychee.electerious.com&title=Lychee&category=software) or PayPal (from [our site](http://lychee.electerious.com/)) to keep the project going strong and me motivated.
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+# Setup
+
+Welcome to your Lychee project on Nitrous.
+
+Now you've got a development server running and can see the output in the Nitrous terminal window. You can open up a new shell or utilize [tmux](https://community.nitrous.io/docs/tmux) to open new shells to run other commands.
+
+## Preview the app
+
+In the Nitrous IDE, open the "Preview" menu and click "Port 3000".
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+{
+  "template": "php-apache",
+  "ports": [3000],
+  "name": "Lychee",
+  "description": "A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.",
+  "scripts": {
+    "post-create": "rm -rf ~/code/public_html && cd ~/code && mv Lychee public_html && sudo chown -R nitrous:www-data public_html && sudo chmod -R g+w public_html && cd public_html && sudo chmod -R 777 uploads/ data/"
+  }
+}