Add introduction

Author: patrickbrouwers

README.md

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 ## Introduction
 
-Laravel Excel 3.0 is intended at being a simple, but elegant wrapper around PhpSpreadsheet with the goal of simplifying
+Laravel Excel is intended at being Laravel-flavoured PhpSpreadsheet: a simple, but elegant wrapper around PhpSpreadsheet with the goal of simplifying
 exports. 
 
+[PhpSpreadsheet](https://phpspreadsheet.readthedocs.io/) is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to read from and to write to different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
+
+Laravel Excel features:
+
+* Easily export collections to Excel
+* Export queries with automatic chunking for better performance
+* Queue exports for better performance
+* Easily export Blade views to Excel
+
 ## Supported Versions
 
 Versions will be supported for a limited amount of time.
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 ## License & Postcardware
 
+Our software is open source and licensed under the MIT license.
+
 If you use the software in your production environment we would appreciate to receive a postcard of your hometown. Please send it to:
 
 **Maatwebsite**  

docs/getting-started.md

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+@include:Introduction|basics
 @include:License|license
 @include:Installation|installation
 @include:Contributing|contributing

docs/getting-started/basics.md

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+# Introduction
+
+Laravel Excel is intended at being Laravel-flavoured PhpSpreadsheet: a simple, but elegant wrapper around PhpSpreadsheet with the goal of simplifying
+exports. 
+
+[PhpSpreadsheet](https://phpspreadsheet.readthedocs.io/) is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to read from and to write to different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
+
+Laravel Excel features:
+
+* Easily export collections to Excel
+* Export queries with automatic chunking for better performance
+* Queue exports for better performance
+* Easily export Blade views to Excel