diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 94597a7..0c47afb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ all unverified tokens, see jwtauth.Authenticator.
 
 # Usage
 
+See the full [example](https://github.com/goware/jwtauth/blob/master/_example/main.go).
+
 ```go
-package myservice
+package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
@@ -75,14 +77,14 @@ func router() http.Handler {
 			ctx := r.Context()
 			token := ctx.Value("jwt").(*jwt.Token)
 			claims := token.Claims
-			w.Write([]byte(fmt.Printf("protected area. hi %v", claims["user_id"])))
+			w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("protected area. hi %v", claims["user_id"])))
 		})
 	})
 
 	// Public routes
 	r.Group(func(r chi.Router) {
 		r.Get("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-			w.Write([]byte("welcome"))
+			w.Write([]byte("welcome anonymous"))
 		})
 	})
 
diff --git a/_example/main.go b/_example/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e39bdd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_example/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+//
+// jwtauth example
+//
+// Sample output:
+//
+// [peter@pak ~]$ curl -v http://localhost:3333/
+// *   Trying ::1...
+// * Connected to localhost (::1) port 3333 (#0)
+// > GET / HTTP/1.1
+// > Host: localhost:3333
+// > User-Agent: curl/7.49.1
+// > Accept: */*
+// >
+// < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+// < Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:53:17 GMT
+// < Content-Length: 17
+// < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+// <
+// * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
+// welcome anonymous%
+//
+//
+// [peter@pak ~]$ curl -v http://localhost:3333/admin
+// *   Trying ::1...
+// * Connected to localhost (::1) port 3333 (#0)
+// > GET /admin HTTP/1.1
+// > Host: localhost:3333
+// > User-Agent: curl/7.49.1
+// > Accept: */*
+// >
+// < HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
+// < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+// < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
+// < Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:53:19 GMT
+// < Content-Length: 13
+// <
+// Unauthorized
+// * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
+//
+//
+// [peter@pak ~]$ curl -H"Authorization: BEARER eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjN9.PZLMJBT9OIVG2qgp9hQr685oVYFgRgWpcSPmNcw6y7M" -v http://localhost:3333/admin
+// *   Trying ::1...
+// * Connected to localhost (::1) port 3333 (#0)
+// > GET /admin HTTP/1.1
+// > Host: localhost:3333
+// > User-Agent: curl/7.49.1
+// > Accept: */*
+// > Authorization: BEARER eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjN9.PZLMJBT9OIVG2qgp9hQr685oVYFgRgWpcSPmNcw6y7M
+// >
+// < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+// < Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:54:26 GMT
+// < Content-Length: 22
+// < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+// <
+// * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
+// protected area. hi 123%
+//
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go"
+	"github.com/goware/jwtauth"
+	"github.com/pressly/chi"
+)
+
+var TokenAuth *jwtauth.JwtAuth
+
+func init() {
+	TokenAuth = jwtauth.New("HS256", []byte("secret"), nil)
+
+	// For debugging/example purposes, we generate and print
+	// a sample jwt token with claims `user_id:123` here:
+	_, tokenString, _ := TokenAuth.Encode(jwtauth.Claims{"user_id": 123})
+	fmt.Printf("DEBUG: a sample jwt is %s\n\n", tokenString)
+}
+
+func main() {
+	addr := ":3333"
+	fmt.Printf("Starting server on %v\n", addr)
+	http.ListenAndServe(addr, router())
+}
+
+func router() http.Handler {
+	r := chi.NewRouter()
+
+	// Protected routes
+	r.Group(func(r chi.Router) {
+		// Seek, verify and validate JWT tokens
+		r.Use(TokenAuth.Verifier)
+
+		// Handle valid / invalid tokens. In this example, we use
+		// the provided authenticator middleware, but you can write your
+		// own very easily, look at the Authenticator method in jwtauth.go
+		// and tweak it, its not scary.
+		r.Use(jwtauth.Authenticator)
+
+		r.Get("/admin", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			ctx := r.Context()
+			token := ctx.Value("jwt").(*jwt.Token)
+			claims := token.Claims
+			w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("protected area. hi %v", claims["user_id"])))
+		})
+	})
+
+	// Public routes
+	r.Group(func(r chi.Router) {
+		r.Get("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			w.Write([]byte("welcome anonymous"))
+		})
+	})
+
+	return r
+}