add Connect Cloud as deployment option (#252)

* add Connect Cloud as deployment option * Update dashes --------- Co-authored-by: Winston Chang <[email protected]>
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+## Posit Connect Cloud
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+The quickest way to get started is [Posit Connect Cloud](https://connect.posit.cloud/), our next-generation online publishing platform. 
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+You can deploy Shiny applications---and other data frameworks---from GitHub to Connect Cloud in under a minute. All you need is your code and a requirements.txt dependency file. 
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+Quickly showcase your work with a public portfolio and leverage powerful features such as secret environment variable management and automatic push-to-publish for seamless continuous deployment. Free and paid plans are available.
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+To get started, sign up for [Connect Cloud](https://connect.posit.cloud/), review the [how-to guide](https://docs.posit.co/connect-cloud/how-to/python/shiny-python.html), and join the [community](https://forum.posit.co/c/posit-professional-hosted/posit-connect-cloud/67).
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 ## Shinyapps.io
 
-The quickest way to get started is [shinyapps.io](https://www.shinyapps.io/), which is our hosted service for deploying Shiny applications.
-Shinyapps.io allows you to easily host applications without having to set up your own server, and has a variety of free and paid plans depending on your use case.
+[shinyapps.io](https://www.shinyapps.io/) also allows you to easily host applications without having to set up your own server, and has a variety of free and paid plans depending on your use case.
 
 To use shinyapps.io, follow these steps: