diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 92f2ed1..96ebdd2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ Thumbs.db
 
 # folders to be ignored
 env/
+venv
+__pycache__
diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0204613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Procfile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+web: gunicorn routes:app
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b3453a2..c950cc6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-appdirs==1.4.3
-click==6.7
-Flask==0.12
-itsdangerous==0.24
-Jinja2==2.9.5
-MarkupSafe==1.0
-packaging==16.8
-pyparsing==2.2.0
-six==1.10.0
-Werkzeug==0.11.15
+click==8.0.3
+Flask==2.0.2
+gunicorn==20.1.0
+itsdangerous==2.0.1
+Jinja2==3.0.3
+MarkupSafe==2.0.1
+Werkzeug==2.0.2