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I think these two more steps should be clear for newcomers. Please correct me it I am wrong, I am rather new to Meteor.

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Telescope is an open-source, real-time social news site built with Meteor

Note: Telescope is beta software. Most of it should work but it's still a little unpolished and you'll probably find some bugs. Use at your own risk :)

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Features

Real-time (of course!)
Password-based and/or Twitter auth
Notifications
Mobile-ready & responsive
Invite-only access for reading and/or posting
Markdown support
Day by day view

Installation

Install Meteor
Install Meteorite
Download or clone Telescope into /some/path
cd /some/path
Run mrt

Running Telescope on Heroku

Use the Heroku buildpack for Meteorite to push to Heroku: heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git
Add MongoHQ addon

First Run

Set the root URL variable used for Twitter auth (on Heroku: heroku config:add ROOT_URL=http://your_url)
Fill in your Twitter keys
The first user account created will automatically be made admin
Check out the settings page and fill out basic things like the site's name