diff --git a/Program.cs b/Program.cs
index 4d039d4..cda12fc 100644
--- a/Program.cs
+++ b/Program.cs
@@ -83,6 +83,6 @@ class Program
             new OptionsWrapper<KestrelServerOptions>(serverOptions), transportFactory, loggerFactory);
 
         await server.StartAsync(new Application(loggerFactory), CancellationToken.None);
-        Console.ReadLine();
+        await Task.Delay(Timeout.Infinite);
     }
 }
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a6e32f2..5656027 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ This project demonstrates how to run Kestrel without ASP.NET.  It creates a web
 
 It also demonstrates how to add the websocket middleware.  If you connect to ws://localhost:8080 (with wscat, for example) it will again respond with "hello world".  This time it will be sent as a textual websocket message.
 
-I wrote this code because I was curious to see if it could be done, but it may be interesting for someone.  It uses significantly less memory than ASP.NET.
+I wrote this code because I was curious to see if it could be done, but it may be interesting for someone.  It uses significantly less memory than ASP.NET.  Startup time is a bit lower too, about 180ms on my system.  On a Linux system, you can measure it like this:
+
+```
+dotnet publish -c Release
+time ./time-startup
+```
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/time-startup b/time-startup
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..eb1bac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/time-startup
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+trap "trap exit TERM; trap EXIT; pkill --pgroup 0" INT TERM EXIT
+./bin/Release/net6.0/StandaloneKestrel &
+while ! curl -s http://localhost:8080; do true; done