diff --git a/myapp.conf.example b/myapp.conf.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfe9b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/myapp.conf.example
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  foo => 'bar',
+  banana => 'monkey',
+# Database connection details
+  dsn => "dbi:SQLite:dbname=foodloop.db",
+};
diff --git a/senddatatodb.pl b/senddatatodb.pl
index fe880d1..1d24b6d 100644
--- a/senddatatodb.pl
+++ b/senddatatodb.pl
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ use Data::UUID;
 
 # connect to database
 use DBI;
-my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=foodloop.db") or die "Could not connect";
+my $config = plugin Config => {file => 'myapp.conf'};
+
+use Devel::Dwarn; Dwarn $config;
+
+my $dbh = DBI->connect($config->{dsn}) or die "Could not connect";
 
 # shortcut for use in template
 helper db => sub { $dbh };