From fafd815866a92f9b2b673f945f95fb7bfec56e03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aakash Gupta <Aakash@Nehas-MacBook-Pro.local>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 14:18:38 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] MacOS installation instructions

---
 README.md         | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 start_services.sh |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c3d15e..d7f3a27 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -107,3 +107,30 @@ MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI=http://localhost:8080 uv run modelplane annotate --annotator
 ```
 MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI=http://localhost:8080 uv run modelplane annotate --annotator_id {annotator_id1} --annotator_id {annotator_id2} --ensemble_strategy {ensemble_strategy} --experiment expname --response_file path/to/response.csv
 ```
+
+### Installation Instructions
+
+#### For MacOS 
+
+Follow the instructions to install Docker-Desktop and start the application:
+
+https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/mac-install/
+
+
+```
+./start_services -d
+```
+
+_Note: The script will create three folders ../modelplane-flights, /mlflow and /flightpaths/.cache_
+
+Jupyter notebook will be available at port: 8888
+
+MLFlow dashboard will be available at port: 8080
+
+#### For Linux
+
+<TODO>
+
+#### For Windows
+
+<TODO>
diff --git a/start_services.sh b/start_services.sh
index 446f9a0..6fe309c 100755
--- a/start_services.sh
+++ b/start_services.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ else
   SSH_FLAG=""
 fi
 
+mkdir -p ../modelplane-flights
+mkdir -p mlruns
+mkdir -p flightpaths/.cache
+
+
 docker compose down "${SERVICES[@]}"
 docker compose build $SSH_FLAG "${SERVICES[@]}"
 docker compose up $DETACHED "${SERVICES[@]}"