Add intro and prereq sections to README

Author: Dean Cook

README.md

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 In the meantime, you might find this helpful too:
 https://hackmd.io/@levicook/HJcDneEWF
 
+# Candy-Machine-Mint
+
+Exiled Apes' Candy-Machine-Mint project is designed to let users fork, customize, and deploy their own candy machine mint app to a custom domain, ultra fast.
+
+A candy machine is an on-chain Solana program (or smart contract) for managing fair mint. Fair mints:
+* Start and finish at the same time for everyone.
+* Won't accept your funds if they're out of NFTs to sell.
+
+Exiled Apes' Candy-Machine-Mint project is meant to be as simple and usable as possible, accessible to everyone from long-time crypto devs to junior React devs with a vague interest in NFTs. Our goal is to empower users to create their own front ends to display, sell, and manage their NFTs as simply as possible by just updating a few styled components and following a well-documented process for setup and shipping.
+
+## Getting Set Up
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+* Follow the instructions [here](https://docs.solana.com/cli/install-solana-cli-tools) to install the Solana Command Line Toolkit.
+* Ensure you have recent versions of both `node` and `yarn` installed.
+
+### Installation
 
 ## Environment Variables