diff --git a/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb b/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..801be08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class WelcomeController < ApplicationController
+    def index; end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb b/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba7c290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<h1>Hello World!</h1>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index c06383a..192b758 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 Rails.application.routes.draw do
   # For details on the DSL available within this file, see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
+  root to: 'welcome#index'
 end