diff --git a/app/controllers/index.js b/app/controllers/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e34bd93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+'use strict';
+
+exports.render = function(req, res) {
+    res.render('index');
+};
diff --git a/app/views/404.jade b/app/views/404.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2f0d9e86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/404.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+extends layouts/default
+
+block main
+  h1 Oops something went wrong
+  br
+  span 404
+
+block content
+  #error-message-box
+    #error-stack-trace
+      pre
+        code!= error
+
diff --git a/app/views/500.jade b/app/views/500.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..491b0008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/500.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+extends layouts/default
+
+block main
+  h1 Oops something went wrong
+  br
+  span 500
+
+block content
+  #error-message-box
+    #error-stack-trace
+      pre
+        code!= error
diff --git a/app/views/includes/foot.jade b/app/views/includes/foot.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/app/views/includes/head.jade b/app/views/includes/head.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..08e4f44c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/includes/head.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+head
+  meta(charset='utf-8')
+  meta(http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible', content='IE=edge,chrome=1')
+  meta(name='viewport', content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1')
+
+  title BitPay
+  meta(http-equiv='Content-type', content='text/html;charset=UTF-8')
+  meta(name="keywords", content="node.js, express, mongoose, mongodb, angularjs")
+  meta(name="description", content="Mystery")
+
+  link(href='/img/icons/favicon.ico', rel='shortcut icon', type='image/x-icon')
+  
diff --git a/app/views/index.jade b/app/views/index.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..874b0421
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/index.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+extends layouts/default
+
+block content
+  h1 Hello BitPay!
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/default.jade b/app/views/layouts/default.jade
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3c47dc27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/layouts/default.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+doctype html
+html(lang='en', xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml')
+  include ../includes/head
+  body
+    section.content
+      section.container
+        block content
+    include ../includes/foot
diff --git a/config/config.js b/config/config.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b4b42300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var _ = require('lodash');
+
+// Load app configuration
+
+module.exports = _.extend(
+    require(__dirname + '/../config/env/all.js'),
+    require(__dirname + '/../config/env/' + process.env.NODE_ENV + '.js') || {});
diff --git a/config/env/all.js b/config/env/all.js
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..22d15f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/env/all.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var path = require('path'),
+rootPath = path.normalize(__dirname + '/../..');
+
+module.exports = {
+	root: rootPath,
+	port: process.env.PORT || 3000,
+    db: process.env.MONGOHQ_URL    
+}
diff --git a/config/env/development.js b/config/env/development.js
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..b0a46656
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/env/development.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = {
+    db: "mongodb://localhost/mystery-dev",
+    app: {
+        name: "Mystery - Development"
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/config/env/production.js b/config/env/production.js
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..9bc30bce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/env/production.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = {
+    db: "mongodb://localhost/mystery",
+    app: {
+        name: "Mystery - Production"
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/config/env/test.js b/config/env/test.js
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..7b30a47c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/env/test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = {
+    db: "mongodb://localhost/mystery-test",
+    port: 3001,
+    app: {
+        name: "Mystery - Test"
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/config/express.js b/config/express.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08343fe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/express.js
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * Module dependencies.
+ */
+var express = require('express'),
+    config = require('./config');
+
+module.exports = function(app, passport, db) {
+    app.set('showStackError', true);
+
+    //Prettify HTML
+    app.locals.pretty = true;
+
+    //Should be placed before express.static
+    app.use(express.compress({
+        filter: function(req, res) {
+            return (/json|text|javascript|css/).test(res.getHeader('Content-Type'));
+        },
+        level: 9
+    }));
+
+    //Set views path, template engine and default layout
+    app.set('views', config.root + '/app/views');
+    app.set('view engine', 'jade');
+
+    //Enable jsonp
+    app.enable("jsonp callback");
+
+    app.configure(function() {
+        //cookieParser should be above session
+        app.use(express.cookieParser());
+
+        // request body parsing middleware should be above methodOverride
+        app.use(express.urlencoded());
+        app.use(express.json());
+        app.use(express.methodOverride());
+
+        //routes should be at the last
+        app.use(app.router);
+        
+        //Setting the fav icon and static folder
+        app.use(express.favicon());
+        app.use(express.static(config.root + '/public'));
+
+        //Assume "not found" in the error msgs is a 404. this is somewhat silly, but valid, you can do whatever you like, set properties, use instanceof etc.
+        app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
+            //Treat as 404
+            if (~err.message.indexOf('not found')) return next();
+
+            //Log it
+            console.error(err.stack);
+
+            //Error page
+            res.status(500).render('500', {
+                error: err.stack
+            });
+        });
+
+        //Assume 404 since no middleware responded
+        app.use(function(req, res, next) {
+            res.status(404).render('404', {
+                url: req.originalUrl,
+                error: 'Not found'
+            });
+        });
+
+    });
+};
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diff --git a/config/routes.js b/config/routes.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fbf7481
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/routes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = function(app) {
+
+    //Home route
+    var index = require('../app/controllers/index');
+    app.get('/', index.render);
+
+};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 477fe833..68b82531 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,5 +29,11 @@
     ],
     "engines": {
         "node": "*"
-    } 
+    },
+    "dependencies": {
+        "express": "~3.4.7",
+        "jade": "~1.0.2",
+        "mongoose": "~3.8.3",
+        "lodash": "~2.4.1"
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68bb10f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * Module dependencies.
+ */
+var express = require('express'),
+    fs = require('fs');
+
+/**
+ * Main application entry file.
+ */
+
+//Load configurations
+//Set the node enviornment variable if not set before
+process.env.NODE_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
+
+//Initializing system variables 
+var config = require('./config/config'),
+    mongoose = require('mongoose');
+
+//Bootstrap db connection
+var db = mongoose.connect(config.db);
+
+//Bootstrap models
+var models_path = __dirname + '/app/models';
+var walk = function(path) {
+    fs.readdirSync(path).forEach(function(file) {
+        var newPath = path + '/' + file;
+        var stat = fs.statSync(newPath);
+        if (stat.isFile()) {
+            if (/(.*)\.(js$|coffee$)/.test(file)) {
+                require(newPath);
+            }
+        } else if (stat.isDirectory()) {
+            walk(newPath);
+        }
+    });
+};
+walk(models_path);
+
+var app = express();
+
+//express settings
+require('./config/express')(app, db);
+
+//Bootstrap routes
+require('./config/routes')(app);
+
+//Start the app by listening on <port>
+var port = process.env.PORT || config.port;
+app.listen(port);
+console.log('Express app started on port ' + port);
+
+//expose app
+exports = module.exports = app;