diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 979c3ba..a514ec7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@
 
 # Ignore our data dir as that gets populated during initial seed/setup
 /data/*
+!/data/.keep
diff --git a/data/.keep b/data/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29