diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # Aloha Ruby Conference demo application
 
 Hopefully, when it's grown up, this will be an Erlang web app starter kit.
+
+# Steps
+
+rebar create app or something
diff --git a/src/aloha.app.src b/src/aloha.app.src
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+{application, aloha,
+ [
+  {description, ""},
+  {vsn, "1"},
+  {registered, []},
+  {applications, [
+                  kernel,
+                  stdlib
+                 ]},
+  {mod, { aloha_app, []}},
+  {env, []}
+ ]}.
diff --git a/src/aloha_app.erl b/src/aloha_app.erl
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+-module(aloha_app).
+
+-behaviour(application).
+
+%% Application callbacks
+-export([start/2, stop/1]).
+
+%% ===================================================================
+%% Application callbacks
+%% ===================================================================
+
+start(_StartType, _StartArgs) ->
+    aloha_sup:start_link().
+
+stop(_State) ->
+    ok.
diff --git a/src/aloha_sup.erl b/src/aloha_sup.erl
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+
+-module(aloha_sup).
+
+-behaviour(supervisor).
+
+%% API
+-export([start_link/0]).
+
+%% Supervisor callbacks
+-export([init/1]).
+
+%% Helper macro for declaring children of supervisor
+-define(CHILD(I, Type), {I, {I, start_link, []}, permanent, 5000, Type, [I]}).
+
+%% ===================================================================
+%% API functions
+%% ===================================================================
+
+start_link() ->
+    supervisor:start_link({local, ?MODULE}, ?MODULE, []).
+
+%% ===================================================================
+%% Supervisor callbacks
+%% ===================================================================
+
+init([]) ->
+    {ok, { {one_for_one, 5, 10}, []} }.
+