diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 35af867..36b6e7e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ contribution. See the [DCO](DCO) file for details.
 
 ## Getting Started
 
-You'll need Go 1.8 or newer installed.
+You'll need Go 1.10 or newer installed.
 
 1. [Fork this repo](https://github.com/sourcegraph/checkup). This makes a copy of the code you can write to.
 2. If you don't already have this repo (sourcegraph/checkup.git) repo on your computer, get it with `go get github.com/sourcegraph/checkup/cmd/checkup`.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4d0567..b96e489 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -451,6 +451,24 @@ Uh oh, having some fires? 🔥 You can create a type that implements `checkup.No
 
 You can implement your own Checker and Storage types. If it's general enough, feel free to submit a pull request so others can use it too!
 
+### Building Locally
+
+Requires Go v1.10 or newer.
+
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:sourcegraph/checkup.git
+cd checkup/cmd/checkup/
+
+# Install dependencies
+go get -v -d
+
+# Build binary
+go build -v -ldflags '-s' -o ../../checkup
+
+# Run tests
+go test -race ../../
+```
+
 ### Building with Docker
 
 Linux binary: