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 - `createuser snipt`
 - `createdb snipt --owner=snipt`
 - `cp settings_local.py-template settings_local.py` // modify if necessary
-- `curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/haystack?pretty"`
-- `python manage.py update_index` // optional if you have a local DB dump with snipt
 - `make run`
 
 ## Deploying on Dokku