diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 994240f3c..4627c6539 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Say goodbye to time-consuming manual searches, and let <strong>DocsGPT</strong>
 
 ## Roadmap
 
-You can find our [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/arc53/projects/2) here, please don't hesitate contributing or creating issues, it helps us make DocsGPT better!
+You can find our [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/arc53/projects/2) here. Please don't hesitate to contribute or create issues, it helps us make DocsGPT better!
 
 ## Our open source models optimised for DocsGPT:
 
@@ -71,16 +71,18 @@ If you don't have enough resources to run it you can use bitsnbytes to quantize
 
 ## QuickStart
 
-Note: Make sure you have docker installed
+Note: Make sure you have Docker installed
 
-1. Dowload and open this repository with `git clone https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT.git`
-2. Create an .env file in your root directory and set the env variable OPENAI_API_KEY with your openai api key and  VITE_API_STREAMING to true or false, depending on if you want streaming answers or not
+1. Download and open this repository with `git clone https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT.git`
+2. Create a .env file in your root directory and set the env variable OPENAI_API_KEY with your OpenAI API key and  VITE_API_STREAMING to true or false, depending on if you want streaming answers or not
    It should look like this inside:
    
    ```
    OPENAI_API_KEY=Yourkey
    VITE_API_STREAMING=true
+   SELF_HOSTED_MODEL=false
    ```
+   See optional environment variables in the `/.env-template` and `/application/.env_sample` files.
 3. Run `./run-with-docker-compose.sh`
 4. Navigate to http://localhost:5173/
 
@@ -89,7 +91,7 @@ To stop just run Ctrl + C
 ## Development environments
 
 ### Spin up mongo and redis
-For development only 2 containers are used from docker-compose.yaml (by deleting all services except for redis and mongo). 
+For development only 2 containers are used from docker-compose.yaml (by deleting all services except for Redis and Mongo). 
 See file [docker-compose-dev.yaml](./docker-compose-dev.yaml).
 
 Run
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ export MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/docsgpt
 ```
 2. Prepare .env file
 Copy `.env_sample` and create `.env` with your OpenAI API token
-3. (optional) Create a python virtual environment
+3. (optional) Create a Python virtual environment
 ```commandline
 python -m venv venv
 . venv/bin/activate