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Welcome to the wiki for Shortcut!

If you're reading this it's because you were invited to check out Shortcut in its pre-release phases. Shortcut is currently in Alpha and is not-quite-ready for prime time but we'd absolutely appreciate developer feedback and we wanted to give you a preview of how it all works under the hood.

Who is this for?

Right now, this pre-release is for curious developers. If you have podcast audio you want to test with, and you have a written transcript or are willing to create one, then you'll be able to get Shortcut running in a local dev environment with your own podcast audio.

As of right now, you should be able to:

• Install Shortcut a local development machine (OSX is officially supported in the docs; Linux documentation will come soon; we're looking for brave Windows devs who want to contribute as well)
• Get our sample episode up and running
• Customize Shortcut's colors and logo
• Import at least one episode of your own podcast (as long as you have a transcript, which we provide instructions for)
• Submit bug reports and pull requests on Github

What you can't do right now:

• Bulk import a whole bunch of episodes (scripts for this coming soon)
• Import episodes that don't have transcripts (we'll support this eventually but not immediately)
• Deploy to a production server (in theory this is possible, we just don't have docs for it and haven't tested it)