diff --git a/api-service/api.py b/api-service/index.py
similarity index 74%
rename from api-service/api.py
rename to api-service/index.py
index 24b30b3..3ca35e8 100644
--- a/api-service/api.py
+++ b/api-service/index.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from flask import Flask
+from flask import Flask, jsonify, make_response
 import argparse
 from widgets.handler import widget_bp
 
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
 
 app.register_blueprint(widget_bp, url_prefix='/widget')
 
+@app.route('/')
+def base_page():
+    msg= jsonify({"success" : 'yayyyyy'})
+    res= make_response(msg,200)
+    res.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
+    return res
+
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     # Get the arguments of the given command
diff --git a/api-service/vercel.json b/api-service/vercel.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77be35c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api-service/vercel.json
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+    "version": 2,
+    "builds": [
+        {
+            "src": "./index.py",
+            "use": "@vercel/python"
+        }
+    ],
+    "routes": [
+        {
+            "src": "/(.*)",
+            "dest": "/"
+        }
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/api-service/widgets/handler.py b/api-service/widgets/handler.py
index 9e8505d..55b6bc5 100644
--- a/api-service/widgets/handler.py
+++ b/api-service/widgets/handler.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 class WeatherAPI(MethodView):
 
     def get(self) -> Response:
-
         args = request.args
         latitude: float = args.get('latitude')
         longitude: float = args.get('longitude')
@@ -46,5 +45,5 @@ def post(self) -> Response:
     '/weather', view_func=WeatherAPI.as_view('weather'), methods=['GET'])
 
 widget_bp.add_url_rule(
-    '/news', view_func=NewsAPI.as_view('news'), methods=[])
+    '/news', view_func=NewsAPI.as_view('news'), methods=['GET'])