diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
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 1. Install go (on arch: `pacman -S go`)
 2. In the root directory of the repo, run `podman compose up -d`
 3. Obtain [golang migrate](https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate). You may need to download the CLI directly from a release
-4. In `backend`, run `migrate -source file://$(pwd)/migrations -database postgres://postgres:test@localhost:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable up`
+4. In `backend`, run `migrate -source file://$(pwd)/migrations -database postgres://postgres:test@localhost:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable up`, on windows run `migrate -path ./migrations -database postgres://postgres:test@localhost:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable up`
 5. In `backend`, run `go run .`
 
 ### Adding new dependencies
+
 `go mod tidy`
 
 ### Formatting
+
 `gofmt -w -s .`
 
 ### Creating new DB migrations
-Create a new file with an incremented prefix number, a human readable string, and ending with `.up.sql`, with a corresponding `.down.sql` that has the same number prefix to revert your change. Apply these with golang-migrate 
+
+Create a new file with an incremented prefix number, a human readable string, and ending with `.up.sql`, with a corresponding `.down.sql` that has the same number prefix to revert your change. Apply these with golang-migrate