diff --git a/api/api/templates/base.html b/api/api/templates/base.html
index 9a8cc3e1c..524dece53 100644
--- a/api/api/templates/base.html
+++ b/api/api/templates/base.html
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
 			<!-- mobile .navbar-collapse - changes here need to reflect on sidebar nav -->
 			<div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
 			  <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right visible-xs visible-sm">
-					<li>
-					  <a href="/#get-started">Getting Started</a>
-					</li>
 					<li>
 						<h5 class="navheader">Users</h5>
 					</li>
diff --git a/api/api/templates/index.html b/api/api/templates/index.html
index 20ff3c07e..3e99c9e32 100644
--- a/api/api/templates/index.html
+++ b/api/api/templates/index.html
@@ -61,11 +61,12 @@
                         <div class="seg-zone-wrap">
                             <h3>Getting Started</h3>
                             <p>
-                                To start making calls to the Onename API, you'll need API credentials (an App ID and an App secret key).
-                            </p>
+                                Welcome to this deployment of Blockstack Core. You can read the documentation and make RESTful calls
+                                to this node.</p>
                             <p>
-                                <a href="/signup" class="btn btn-default" target="_self">Sign Up for an API Account</a>
+                                Blockstack Core is free software released under a GPLv3 license. More details are <a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core">here</a>.
                             </p>
+                            
                         </div>
                     </div>
                 </div>