diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fbb073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/vendor/
+/composer.lock
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.json
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+{
+    "name": "kastdeur/hippopotato",
+    "description": "Simple flat file storage in PHP",
+    "license": "MIT",
+	"minimum-stability": "dev",
+    "autoload": {
+        "psr-4": {
+            "Kastdeur\\Hippopotato\\": "src/"
+        }
+    },
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "ET de Boone",
+            "email": "dev@etdeboone.nl"
+        }
+    ],
+    "require": {}
+}