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title: Development
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Want to build something on top of LBRY? This is the place to get you started.
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At least, it's the place to get started so long as you have some idea of what LBRY _is_. If you don't, you should read the
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[Overview](/overview) first.
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## When to Use LBRY
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- You want to build an application that contributes to the world's knowledge, or benefits from global, shared discovery (flesh this out).
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- You want to replace an existing centralized service related to digital content distribution with a decentralized/community-controlled one.
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## When Not to Use LBRY
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- You want to privately distribute data/information.
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- You want to do illegal things.
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## How (Ways?) to Build on LBRY
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### Web, Desktop, and Mobile Applications (Daemon-based Applications)
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Almost all web, desktop, and mobile applications will use the [lbry daemon](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry) as a way of accessing and communicating with the LBRY network.
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#### Web Applications
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1. Set up a web server.
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1. Install lbry. (Docker images? Other convenient ways of doing this?)
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1. Bridging basics.
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#### Desktop Applications
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1. Desktop applications will typically bundle the [lbry daemon](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry).
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1. lbry-desktop as example
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#### Android Applications
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1. (Whatever magic you have to do to get a daemon running on Android.)
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#### iOS Applications
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It is not currently possible to use LBRY on iOS. [There is a bounty](lbry.io/bounty/ios-daemon) for this.
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### Blockchain and Wallet Level (Full Node Applications)
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Not all applications will want to use the full LBRY protocol, or some applications may be specifically designed with full blockchain interactions in mind.
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1. How to install lbrycrd.
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1. lbrycrd documentation
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## Desired Applications
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