diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 084898ffa95be1958deb158e0ac83fc886abbe7b..ee4e3ebca31df46aba42feb8efc6cd9a02321996 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,12 +39,10 @@ If you want to work on BrainBox's code, you'll need a local installation:
 
 1. install and start `mongo` database
 2. clone the repo and `cd` to the brainbox directory
-3. `mkdir public/data`
 4. [create a new OAuth application](https://github.com/settings/applications/new) for your local brainbox url (http://localhost:3000 by default)
 5. paste the keys into the github-keys.json.example file, and drop the .example
 6. drop the `.example` from `blacklist.json.example`
 7. drop the `.example` from `whitelist.json.example`
 8. `npm install`
 9. `npm start`
-10. To lint your files use `npm test`, you can use `xo --fix` to fix common mistakes, before committing,
-to do that install `xo` globally using `npm i -g xo`
+10. To lint your files use `npm test`, and you can use `node_modules/.bin/xo --fix <your_file.js>` to fix common mistakes before committing
diff --git a/public/data/.gitkeep b/public/data/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index 33ef6a151012cb4876c1285bf8ec498258e0822c..ca73d87770af8ed7ab5c9dc3862e0b65dbdcc1f1 100644
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 cd /brainbox
-mkdir -p public
-mkdir -p public/data
 npm install
 node ./bin/www