diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3547ba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+__pycache__
+.backups
+optifik.egg-info
+*.bak
+*.pyc
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+build/
+dist/