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@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Roda, Falcon, Sequel, and SQLite
 
 the point of this project is to quickly build something and work on continuous deployment while making small refinements to the functional pieces.
 
+the only outside piece of software that this project relies on is sqlite3. 
+
 
 first you have to install the dependencies: