diff --git a/Dockerfile.smoketests b/Dockerfile.smoketests
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d13800
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile.smoketests
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+FROM python:3.10-slim
+
+COPY ./requirements.txt /requirements.txt
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential flatpak gir1.2-ostree-1.0 libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev && \
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    pip install -r requirements.txt && \
+    flatpak --user remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo && \
+    flatpak --user remote-add flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
+
+COPY ./app /app
+COPY ./data /data
+COPY ./tests /tests
+RUN pip install pytest
+
+COPY smoketests.sh /smoketests.sh
+RUN ["chmod", "+x", "/smoketests.sh"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["/smoketests.sh"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5acf825..5ab3121 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,3 +30,10 @@ https://localhost:8000/docs
 ### Accessing redis
 You can use a redis tool of your choice to interact with the database.
 Just connect to localhost:6379.
+
+### Running the smoketests locally
+If you want to run the smoketests locally, you can use the following commands:
+```bash
+docker-compose run smoketests
+```
+You might need to flush your redis database before running the tests. As it assumes that the database is empty.
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diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 1dd792e..70b2862 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,12 @@ services:
       - /var/lib/flatpak
       - ./app:/app
       - ./data:/data
+
+  smoketests:
+    build:
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.smoketests
+      context: .
+    environment:
+      - REDIS_HOST=redis
+    links:
+      - redis:redis
diff --git a/smoketests.sh b/smoketests.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c80503a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smoketests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 &
+python -m pytest -s tests/main.py
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