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+<div align="center">
+  <img src="./web/app/favicon.ico" width="250">
+  <h1>
+    Foldbank
+  </h1>
+  <h4>a mock of the [Fold Money](https://fold.money) website</h4>
+</div>
+
+
+## Design
+
+The design is inspired from the image present on the [Fold Money Website](https://fold.money/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2Fmockup-web-light.a9e40530.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
+
+
+## Usage
+
+- Local setup is suppoerted via [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/)
+
+```sh
+docker-compose up -d
+```
+
+
+### Build
+
+- Build images for dev
+
+```sh
+docker-compose build
+```
+
+
+### Build images for prod
+
+```sh
+docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml build
+```
+
+
+### Logging
+
+- To get the logs of all containers
+
+```sh
+docker-compose logs -f
+```
+
+- To get the logs of a particular container
+
+```sh
+docker-compose logs -f container-name
+```
+
+
+## What this is not
+
+```
+- A production ready app
+- Backend
+  - Linking of bank account
+  - Multiple currency handling
+  - Not considering assets like FD, Stocks
+  - i18n
+  - Multi Tenancy
+  - Authentication
+- Web
+  - Not mobile responsive, intended to be a mockup
+  - Click to copy
+  - Hover states
+  - Menus
+```
+