diff --git a/hodor/__init__.py b/hodor/__init__.py
index 9b9b1bab85cc3db24429afcc1dc95fb66f6bb618..cdcc372fb7e9a918c2b910f77a18163cc51f1955 100644
--- a/hodor/__init__.py
+++ b/hodor/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # app/__init__.py
 import time
-import copy
+from termcolor import colored
+import sys
 from flask_api import FlaskAPI
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 # local import
@@ -24,10 +25,13 @@ db.init_app(application)
 # Delay the application launch to get the user attention if running in testing mode
 if config_name != 'production':
     for x in range(0, 5):
-        print("You are not running the server in production mode.\
-        App will run in {} seconds".format(5-x))
+        sys.stdout.write(colored("\rYou are not running the server in production mode. " +
+              "App will run in {} seconds..".format(5-x), 'red'))
+        sys.stdout.flush()
         time.sleep(1)
 
+    print(colored("\n\nRunning app in {} mode..".format(config_name), 'yellow'))
+
 # This disables the HTML API renderer for flask_api when called through browsers.
 if config_name == 'production':
     application.config['DEFAULT_RENDERERS'] = [
diff --git a/hodor/api/__init__.py b/hodor/api/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/hodor/api/user.py b/hodor/api/user.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2075c091de01301a18c7a2fd146fb09701f65317..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/hodor/api/user.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-from hodor.app import api
-from flask_restplus import Resource
-
-ns = api.namespace('/users', description='Operations related to blog posts')
-
-@ns.route('/users')
-class listusers(Resource):
-    def get(self):
-        return {'user': 'noob'}
-
-
-api.add_resource(listusers, '/users')
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diff --git a/hodor/app.py b/hodor/app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f402ea0a18e68be106eacf6eb98d570df3f8a88..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/hodor/app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-from flask import Flask, request
-from flask_restplus import Resource, Api
-from api.user import ns as user_namespace
-
-app = Flask(__name__)
-api = Api(app)
-
-todos = {}
-
-@api.route('/<string:todo_id>')
-class TodoSimple(Resource):
-    def get(self, todo_id):
-        return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]}
-
-    def put(self, todo_id):
-        todos[todo_id] = request.form['data']
-        return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]}
-
-api.add_namespace(user_namespace)
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    app.run(debug=True)
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