From 7440883c15075e6ff43be544abb464d6e5f43c5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Firth <dan.firth@homotopic.tech>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:57:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Add section on getting started

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 Horizon is a haskell package set targetting new builds of GHC.
 
+## Getting started
+
+You an can use this package set instead of your haskell packages set in
+nixpkgs. To see an example you can use the template supplied with this
+repository.
+
+```
+mkdir myProject
+cd myProject
+nix flake init -t 'git+https://gitlab.homotopic.tech/horizon/horizon-platform'
+```
+
 ## Updating the package set
 
 The package set is generated from the `horizon.dhall` using the following command:
-- 
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