diff --git a/packages/backend/src/app.ts b/packages/backend/src/app.ts
index 4479e36..40f33ea 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/app.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/app.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 import { Schema as S } from "@effect/schema";
-import { DateTime, Duration, Either as E, Effect, Option as O, pipe } from "effect";
+import { Login } from "common/api";
+import { AccessLog } from "common/db";
+import { DateTime, Duration, Either as E, Effect, Match, Option as O, pipe } from "effect";
+import { Api } from "make-api";
+import { brotliCompress } from "node:zlib";
 import { RequestError } from "./RequestError";
 import { Database } from "./services/database";
 import { Request } from "./services/request";
-import { Match } from "effect";
-import { Api } from "make-api";
-import { Login } from "common/api";
-import { AccessLog } from "common/db";
-import { brotliCompress } from "node:zlib";
 
 const match = (api: Api.Api.Any) => Effect.gen(function* () {
 
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/services/database.ts b/packages/backend/src/services/database.ts
index c8d7eb3..3b395d5 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/services/database.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/services/database.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { SessionId, UserId } from "common";
 import { User } from "common/db";
 import { Context, Effect, Layer, pipe } from "effect";
 import { NoSuchElementException } from "effect/Cause";
+import { ulid } from "ulid";
 
 export function generateSessionId(byteLength: number = 12): SessionId {
 	const array = new Uint8Array(byteLength);
@@ -73,6 +74,15 @@ export const DatabaseLive = (filePath: string = "db.sqlite3") => Layer.effect(Da
 			mediaType TEXT NOT NULL,
 			${systemInformation}
 		)`);
+
+		const userCount = db.query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM User").values()[0][0] as number;
+		if (userCount <= 0) {
+			const userId = UserId.make(ulid());
+			const username = "admin";
+			const password = Bun.password.hashSync("admin");
+			const admin = true;
+			db.exec("INSERT INTO User (userId, username, password, admin) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)", userId, username, password, admin);
+		}
 	})),
 	Effect.map((db) => {
 		const getUserByUsername = db.prepare("SELECT userId, username, password, admin FROM User WHERE username = ?");