diff --git a/.env.development.local b/.env.development.local
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8aed89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.development.local
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Created by Vercel CLI
+JWT_SECRET="pullItSecret8998"
+POSTGRES_DATABASE="verceldb"
+POSTGRES_HOST="ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech"
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD="KgPR8WF9ChJw"
+POSTGRES_PRISMA_URL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/verceldb?pgbouncer=true&connect_timeout=15&sslmode=require"
+POSTGRES_URL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/verceldb?sslmode=require"
+POSTGRES_URL_NON_POOLING="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/verceldb?sslmode=require"
+POSTGRES_URL_NO_SSL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/verceldb"
+POSTGRES_USER="default"
diff --git a/.env.local b/.env.local
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c953776
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.local
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+JWT_SECRET="pullItSecret8998"
+POSTGRES_URL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech:5432/verceldb?sslmode=require"
+POSTGRES_PRISMA_URL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech:5432/verceldb?sslmode=require&pgbouncer=true&connect_timeout=15"
+POSTGRES_URL_NO_SSL="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech:5432/verceldb"
+POSTGRES_URL_NON_POOLING="postgres://default:KgPR8WF9ChJw@ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech:5432/verceldb?sslmode=require"
+POSTGRES_USER="default"
+POSTGRES_HOST="ep-delicate-darkness-a4rq0kuy-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech"
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD="KgPR8WF9ChJw"
+POSTGRES_DATABASE="verceldb"
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diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index a95c153..bb38307 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
       "license": "ISC",
       "dependencies": {
         "@prisma/client": "^5.19.1",
+        "@vercel/postgres": "^0.9.0",
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         "bcrypt": "^5.1.1",
         "body-parser": "^1.20.2",
@@ -40,6 +41,15 @@
         "node-pre-gyp": "bin/node-pre-gyp"
       }
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+    "node_modules/@neondatabase/serverless": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@neondatabase/serverless/-/serverless-0.9.4.tgz",
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     },
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+      "dependencies": {
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+        "pg-protocol": "*",
+        "pg-types": "^4.0.1"
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+    },
+    "node_modules/@vercel/postgres": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@vercel/postgres/-/postgres-0.9.0.tgz",
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+      "license": "Apache-2.0",
+      "dependencies": {
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+      "hasInstallScript": true,
+      "license": "MIT",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "bin": {
+        "node-gyp-build": "bin.js",
+        "node-gyp-build-optional": "optional.js",
+        "node-gyp-build-test": "build-test.js"
+      }
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+      "license": "ISC",
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+      "license": "ISC",
+      "engines": {
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+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/pg-protocol": {
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+        "pg-numeric": "1.0.2",
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+        "postgres-bytea": "~3.0.0",
+        "postgres-date": "~2.1.0",
+        "postgres-interval": "^3.0.0",
+        "postgres-range": "^1.1.1"
+      },
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+      "license": "MIT",
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+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/postgres-bytea": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/postgres-bytea/-/postgres-bytea-3.0.0.tgz",
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+      },
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
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+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/postgres-interval": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/postgres-interval/-/postgres-interval-3.0.0.tgz",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
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+    },
+    "node_modules/postgres-range": {
+      "version": "1.1.4",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/postgres-range/-/postgres-range-1.1.4.tgz",
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@@ -1702,6 +1870,19 @@
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       }
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+    "node_modules/utf-8-validate": {
+      "version": "6.0.4",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/utf-8-validate/-/utf-8-validate-6.0.4.tgz",
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+      "hasInstallScript": true,
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "node-gyp-build": "^4.3.0"
+      },
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">=6.14.2"
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/ws/-/ws-8.18.0.tgz",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">=10.0.0"
+      },
+      "peerDependencies": {
+        "bufferutil": "^4.0.1",
+        "utf-8-validate": ">=5.0.2"
+      },
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+        "bufferutil": {
+          "optional": true
+        },
+        "utf-8-validate": {
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dedf6e8..cee3117 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   "description": "",
   "dependencies": {
     "@prisma/client": "^5.19.1",
+    "@vercel/postgres": "^0.9.0",
     "aws-sdk": "^2.1687.0",
     "bcrypt": "^5.1.1",
     "body-parser": "^1.20.2",
diff --git a/prisma/schema.prisma b/prisma/schema.prisma
index f274ad7..db2ce8c 100644
--- a/prisma/schema.prisma
+++ b/prisma/schema.prisma
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ generator client {
 }
 
 datasource db {
-  provider = "sqlite"
-  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
+  provider = "postgresql"
+  url = env("POSTGRES_PRISMA_URL") // uses connection pooling
+  directUrl = env("POSTGRES_URL_NON_POOLING") // uses a direct connection
 }
 
 model User {