diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3e481e7..db1ff1f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 [package]
-name = "egui_template"
+name = "{{project-name}}"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2024"
+description = "{{description}}"
+authors = [ "{{authors}}" ]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
+readme = "README.md"
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0"
-thiserror = "2.0"
+#thiserror = "2.0"
 dotenvy = "0.15"
 
 tokio = { version = "1.48.0", features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8eb05f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+To run this egui app with hot-patching enabled, first make sure you have the Dioxus CLI installed:
+
+```shell
+cargo binstall dioxus-cli
+```
+
+Then, run the following:
+
+```shell
+dx serve --hot-patch
+```
+
+Building in release mode will turn subsecond calls into no-ops.
+Subsecond also currently doesn't work for binaries with a backing library, so all hot-patchable code must be
+in the binary crate.
+
+Refer to [subsecond docs](<https://docs.rs/subsecond/latest/subsecond/>) for more info.
diff --git a/cargo-generate.toml b/cargo-generate.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58fa42a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cargo-generate.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[template]
+ignore = [
+    ".idea",
+    ".jj",
+    "target",
+]