diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4eefeb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+VITE_NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=''
+VITE_AWS_REGION=''
+VITE_TABLE_NAME=''
+VITE_COMPANIES=''
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5d9d311..b35792b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ gitignore
 Thumbs.db
 
 .env*
+!.env.example
 # vercel
 .vercel
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4453778..ca6b518 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ This is a tool to generate and send emails to data brokers to remove your detail
 ## Deploy Your Own
 
 It's open source so you can deploy and run it yourself if you wish.
+
+1. Run `yarn install`
+2. Create env file using the example
+3. Run `yarn run dev` for the development server 
+