diff --git a/app/api.py b/app/api.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..539f200
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from ninja import NinjaAPI
+
+api = NinjaAPI(version="1.0.0")
+
+
+@api.get("/hello")
+def hello(request):
+    return {"response": "Hello world"}
diff --git a/app/urls.py b/app/urls.py
index 84b3189..6338358 100644
--- a/app/urls.py
+++ b/app/urls.py
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Including another URLconf
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.urls import path
 
+from app.api import api
+
 urlpatterns = [
     path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
+    path('api/v1/', api.urls)
 ]
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index f76f627..d9f91b0 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -408,6 +408,27 @@ tzdata = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 argon2 = ["argon2-cffi (>=19.1.0)"]
 bcrypt = ["bcrypt"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "django-ninja"
+version = "0.22.2"
+description = "Django Ninja - Fast Django REST framework"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "django_ninja-0.22.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c53b098a8190f373ea2605c276a6061d48b2626500a9c6b9916c503e4b4a20eb"},
+    {file = "django_ninja-0.22.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:913ebde7571d6a6968c9ac0b9e8a24680c46444d44fdd552f8831dbeede1292c"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+Django = ">=2.2"
+pydantic = ">=1.6,<2.0.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["pre-commit"]
+doc = ["markdown-include", "mkdocs", "mkdocs-material", "mkdocstrings"]
+test = ["black", "django-stubs", "flake8", "isort", "mypy (==0.931)", "psycopg2-binary", "pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-cov", "pytest-django"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "exceptiongroup"
 version = "1.1.1"
@@ -2124,4 +2145,4 @@ indexer = ["ujson", "warcio", "idna", "beautifulsoup4", "lxml", "langdetect", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.11"
-content-hash = "b40fcb8fc85427fe91b9ba334eaa21bc58c746471650121fbf0846c859c6999e"
+content-hash = "9e8a04eb23e361a1493232289085251695eaeb08e165a36ad2ceeed03ad825cb"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ac3b8af..455d5b0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ pyarrow = {version= "==6.0.0", optional = true}
 pyspark = {version= "==3.2.0", optional = true}
 Levenshtein = {version= "==0.16.0", optional = true}
 django = "^4.2.4"
+django-ninja = "^0.22.2"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 indexer = [