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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uses OpenAI API to determine if a research idea is reasonable and novel for the
 ## Deploy
 ### Docker-compose
 ```
-docker-compose up --rebuild --force=recreate
+docker-compose up --build --force-recreate
 ```
 
 You can use the `-d` flag at the end to runin in detached (background) mode
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ To stop the app,
 docker-compose down
 ```
 
-or ctrl+c once to gracefully exit, twice to ungracefully exit. 
\ No newline at end of file
+or ctrl+c once to gracefully exit, twice to ungracefully exit.