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 A demo is available at https://bam.hackerdash.online - to try it out, you can use `bookmaster` as username and `masterofbooks` for the password.
 
+## Architecture
+
+This project uses the python flask microframework with jinja2 as the templating engine. The database used is SQLite3.
+
 ## Running locally
 
 ```zsh