more complete startup instructions?

[rkiddy]

I have a simple procedure that I follow to see if something is installable. I create a new AWS ec2 instance and provision it with an Ubuntu system, usually the latest. And then I follow the instructions given in the README.

Does that get me to a working system?

These instructions lost me at "put your own values into .env".

Also, since having a modern app practically requires the use of a virtual environment manager, which one did you use and can you go ahead and give the commands to provision it.

It would be great to avoid a file named ".env" also, since, for example, virtualenv uses a directory called ".env". A file named ".courtbot" would do the job, yes?