From 332331e7ef8a92c4f49e65fc89734db5e706bfde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srilekha <srilekhar86@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:36:00 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] chore: initial project scaffolding and gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 9 +++++++++
 README.md  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3445a34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+.venv/
+venv/
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+.env
+.cache/
+output/
+*.sqlite
+*.sqlite3
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c48e9b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# HIFFI Top 500 Hip-Hop Artist Intelligence
+
+Automated data pipeline for multi-source verification and composite metric ranking.