diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
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index 0000000..313784f
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+++ b/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Domain
+# This would be set to the production domain with an env var on deployment
+# used by Traefik to transmit traffic and aqcuire TLS certificates
+DOMAIN=furyhawk.lol
+# To test the local Traefik config
+# DOMAIN=localhost.dev.lan
+
+# Used by the backend to generate links in emails to the frontend
+FRONTEND_HOST=https://dev.furyhawk.lol
+# In staging and production, set this env var to the frontend host, e.g.
+# FRONTEND_HOST=https://dashboard.dev.lan
+
+# Environment: local, staging, production
+ENVIRONMENT=local
+
+PROJECT_NAME="Home Stack FastAPI Project"
+STACK_NAME=home-stack-fastapi-project
+
+# Backend
+BACKEND_CORS_ORIGINS="http://localhost,http://localhost:5173,http://localhost:5175,https://localhost,https://localhost:5173,http://dev.lan,http://dev.lan:5173,https://dev.furyhawk.lol"
+SECRET_KEY=changethis
+FIRST_SUPERUSER=admin@dev.lan
+FIRST_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=changethis
+
+# Emails
+SMTP_HOST=
+SMTP_USER=
+SMTP_PASSWORD=
+EMAILS_FROM_EMAIL=info@dev.lan
+SMTP_TLS=True
+SMTP_SSL=False
+SMTP_PORT=587
+
+# Postgres
+POSTGRES_SERVER=db
+POSTGRES_PORT=5432
+POSTGRES_DB=app
+POSTGRES_USER=postgres
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changethis
+
+SENTRY_DSN=
+
+# Configure these with your own Docker registry images
+DOCKER_IMAGE_BACKEND=docker.io/furyhawk/home-stack-fastapi-project-backend
+DOCKER_IMAGE_FRONTEND=docker.io/furyhawk/home-stack-fastapi-project-frontend
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ notebooks/chroma_db/
 notebooks/llama-2-7b-chat.Q4_K_M.gguf
 esphome/config/
 ai_stack/llamacpp.server/models/
+.env