diff --git a/app/app.py b/app/app.py
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+from flask import Flask, render_template, make_response, send_from_directory
+import os
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+@app.route('/')
+def index():
+    return render_template('index.xht')
+
+@app.route('/fortune')
+def fortune():
+    fortune = os.run('/usr/bin/fortune')
+    return render_template('fortune.j2', fortune=fortune)
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diff --git a/app/templates/fortune.j2 b/app/templates/fortune.j2
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <title>fortune as a service</title>
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>fortune as a service</h1>
+    <p>
+        your fortune is: {{ fortune }}
+    </p>
+    <a href="/fortune">get a new fortune</a>
+  </body>
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diff --git a/app/templates/index.xht b/app/templates/index.xht
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <title>fortune as a service</title>
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>fortune as a service</h1>
+    <p>
+        fortune as a service is a simple web application that provides random fortunes,
+        from the /usr/bin/fortune command on Arch Linux, with our patent-pending AI Layer
+        2 code execution engine.
+    </p>
+    <a href="/fortune">get a fortune</a>
+  </body>
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