bigchaindb/docs/server/source/quickstart.md
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# 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. The BigchainDB Testnet is a free-to-use, publicly-available BigchainDB network that you can test against.
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<a class="button" href="https://testnet.bigchaindb.com/">Get started with the BigchainDB Testnet</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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