diff --git a/src/toastbin/database.py b/src/toastbin/database.py
index b9a4499..06c3d36 100644
--- a/src/toastbin/database.py
+++ b/src/toastbin/database.py
@@ -1,14 +1,30 @@
 import sqlalchemy
+import sqlalchemy.orm
+from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, Integer, String, MetaData
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
 import json
 
 with open('config.json', 'r') as file:
     config = json.load(file)
+
 username = config['database']['username']
 password = config['database']['password']
 port = config['database']['port']
 location = config['database']['location']
 database = config['database']['database']
 
+metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData()
+
 engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('postgresql://' + username + ':' + password + '@' + location  +':' + port + '/' + database) # todo: finish this, give users options maybe
 Session = sqlalchemy.orm.sessionmaker(bind=engine)
 session = Session()
+Base = declarative_base()
+
+users = Table(
+   'users', metadata,
+   Column('id', Integer, primary_key = True),
+   Column('name', String),
+   Column('password', String),
+)
+
+metadata.create_all(engine)