# Quickstart

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## Try BigchainDB

Create a BigchainDB transaction and post it to a BigchainDB network in 20 seconds or less:

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    <a class="button" href="https://www.bigchaindb.com/getstarted/">Try BigchainDB Now</a>
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## Develop an App

To develop an app that talks to a BigchainDB network, you'll want a test network to test it against. IPDB is the Interplanetary Database. The IPDB Test Network is a free-to-use, publicly-available BigchainDB network that you can test against.

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    <a class="button" href="https://ipdb.io/#getstarted">Get started with IPDB</a>
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Regardless of which BigchainDB network you use, you'll probably use one of the [BigchainDB drivers or tools](https://www.bigchaindb.com/getstarted/#drivers).

## Help Develop BigchainDB Server

To help develop BigchainDB Server (the core software in each BigchainDB node), read the [CONTRIBUTING.md file](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). It includes instructions for deploying and testing a single BigchainDB node, and multi-node clusters.

## Old Quickstart

If you want something like the old Quickstart page, i.e. some command-line instructions to set up and run a BigchainDB node, then go to the [bigchaindb/bigchaindb repository on GitHub](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb) and check out the stack.sh file in the pkg/scripts/ directory. Note that it uses functions defined in the functions-common file in that directory.

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