diff --git a/src/backend/Cargo.toml b/src/backend/Cargo.toml
index fca1596..8e85d82 100644
--- a/src/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 [package]
 name = "rustymine-daemon"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.0.0"
 edition = "2024"
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.100"
 argon2 = "0.5.3"
 axum = "0.8.7"
+chrono = "0.4.42"
 lazy_static = "1.5.0"
 password-hash = "0.5.0"
 rand_core = { version = "0.6", features = ["getrandom"] }
@@ -19,3 +20,6 @@ tower-http = { version = "0.6.7", features = ["cors"] }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.43", features = ["max_level_debug"] }
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.22"
 validator = { version = "0.20.0", features = ["derive"] }
+
+[build-dependencies]
+chrono = "0.4.42"
diff --git a/src/backend/build.rs b/src/backend/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02480d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+use chrono::Utc;
+use std::process::Command;
+
+fn main() {
+    let build_date = Utc::now().to_rfc3339();
+
+    let git_hash = Command::new("git")
+        .args(["rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"])
+        .output()
+        .map(|o| String::from_utf8_lossy(&o.stdout).trim().to_string())
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| "unknown".into());
+
+    let git_dirty = Command::new("git")
+        .args(["diff-index", "--quiet", "HEAD", "--"])
+        .status()
+        .map(|status| if status.success() { "" } else { "-dirty" })
+        .unwrap_or("");
+
+    println!("cargo:rustc-env=BUILD_DATE={}", build_date);
+    println!("cargo:rustc-env=GIT_HASH={}", git_hash);
+    println!("cargo:rustc-env=GIT_SUFFIX={}", git_dirty);
+
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=.git/HEAD");
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=.git/refs/");
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/src/main.rs b/src/backend/src/main.rs
index 046b38d..893db5c 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/backend/src/main.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,36 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use anyhow::{Ok, Result};
 use rustymine_daemon::{router, state::AppState};
-use tracing::Level;
+use tracing::{Level, debug, error, info, warn};
+
+pub const APP_NAME: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME");
+pub const APP_VERSION: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
+
+pub const BUILD_DATE: &str = env!("BUILD_DATE");
+pub const GIT_HASH: &str = env!("GIT_HASH");
+pub const GIT_SUFFIX: &str = env!("GIT_SUFFIX");
+
+pub const ASCII_LOGO: &str = "
+██████╗ ██╗   ██╗███████╗████████╗██╗   ██╗███╗   ███╗██╗███╗   ██╗███████╗
+██╔══██╗██║   ██║██╔════╝╚══██╔══╝╚██╗ ██╔╝████╗ ████║██║████╗  ██║██╔════╝
+██████╔╝██║   ██║███████╗   ██║    ╚████╔╝ ██╔████╔██║██║██╔██╗ ██║█████╗  
+██╔══██╗██║   ██║╚════██║   ██║     ╚██╔╝  ██║╚██╔╝██║██║██║╚██╗██║██╔══╝  
+██║  ██║╚██████╔╝███████║   ██║      ██║   ██║ ╚═╝ ██║██║██║ ╚████║███████╗
+╚═╝  ╚═╝ ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝   ╚═╝      ╚═╝   ╚═╝     ╚═╝╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═══╝╚══════╝";
+
+pub const BUILD_MODE: &str = if cfg!(debug_assertions) {
+    "development"
+} else {
+    "release"
+};
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    println!("{}", ASCII_LOGO);
+    println!("\nStarting {} v{}-{}", APP_NAME, APP_VERSION, BUILD_MODE);
+    println!("Git revision: {}{}", GIT_HASH, GIT_SUFFIX);
+    println!("Built on:     {}\n", BUILD_DATE);
+
     let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
         .with_max_level(Level::DEBUG)
         .finish();