diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ca7976e..ea422ef 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ security vulnerability. See our
 [security policy](https://github.com/scandale-project/pumpkin/security/policy)
 page.
 
-[FastAPI](https://flask.palletsprojects.com) is used for the backend API.
+[FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) is used for the backend API.
 Please use [black](https://github.com/psf/black) for the syntax of your Python code.
 
 
diff --git a/api/database.py b/api/database.py
index 0590b74..9cbbad8 100644
--- a/api/database.py
+++ b/api/database.py
@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@
 from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
 
+try:
+    from instance import config
+except Exception:
+    from instance import example as config
 
 DB_CONFIG_DICT = {
-    "user": "cedric",
-    "password": "password",
-    "host": "localhost",
-    "port": 5432,
+    "user": config.DB_USERNAME,
+    "password": config.DB_PASSWORD,
+    "host": config.DB_HOST,
+    "port": config.DB_PORT,
 }
-DATABASE_NAME = "pumpkin"
+DATABASE_NAME = config.DB_NAME
 SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "postgresql://{user}:{password}@{host}:{port}/{name}".format(
     name=DATABASE_NAME, **DB_CONFIG_DICT
 )
diff --git a/instance/example.py b/instance/example.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4707fee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instance/example.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+DB_USERNAME = "<username>"
+DB_PASSWORD = "<password>"
+DB_HOST = "localhost"
+DB_PORT = 5432
+DB_NAME = "pumpkin"