diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2483976..64a83c7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .idea/
 __pycache__/
+legacy_server/
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 45520a9..cd6945f 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 user_agent = "HNClient (in development)"
+debug = True
diff --git a/hnapi/README.md b/hnapi/README.md
index 9fccecb..c7949df 100644
--- a/hnapi/README.md
+++ b/hnapi/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 ## Python client to HackerNews API
 
 strongly inspired by [haxor](https://github.com/avinassh/haxor) created by Avinash Sajjanshetty (MIT licenced)
+
+later this was rewritten to be fully asynchronous.
diff --git a/hnapi/__init__.py b/hnapi/__init__.py
index ffb712e..43e1359 100644
--- a/hnapi/__init__.py
+++ b/hnapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,74 +1,59 @@
+import asyncio
 import json
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import List
 
+from aiohttp import ClientSession
 from redis import Redis
-from requests import Session
 
 API_BASEURL = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/"
 
 
-@dataclass
-class Item:
-    id: int
-    type: str
-    by: str
-    time: int
-    url: str
-    score: int
-    title: str
-    # parts: ??
-    deleted: bool = None
-    text: str = None  # HTML
-    dead: bool = None
-    parent: int = None
-    poll: int = None
-    kids: List[int] = None
-    descendants: int = None
-
-
 class HNClient:
-    def __init__(self, requests_session: Session, redis: Redis):
-        self.s = requests_session
+    def __init__(self, session: ClientSession, redis: Redis):
+        self.s = session
         self.r = redis
 
-    def get_item(self, item_id: int, remove_kids=True):
+    async def get_item(self, item_id: int, remove_kids=True):
         key = f"hnclient_item_{item_id}"
         cache = self.r.get(key)
         if cache:
             return json.loads(cache)
         url = f"{API_BASEURL}item/{item_id}.json"
-        response = self.s.get(url)
-        response.raise_for_status()
-        item = response.json()
-        self.r.set(key, response.text, ex=60 * 15)
+        async with self.s.get(url) as response:
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            text = await response.text()
+            item = json.loads(text)
+        self.r.set(key, text, ex=60 * 15)
         if "kids" in item and remove_kids:
             del item["kids"]
         return item
 
-    def get_full_item(self, item_id: int):
-        item = self.get_item(item_id, remove_kids=False)
+    async def get_full_item(self, item_id: int):
+        item = await self.get_item(item_id, remove_kids=False)
         if "kids" in item:
-            kids = list(self.get_items_by_id(item["kids"], full=True))
+            tasks = []
+            for kid in item["kids"]:
+                task = asyncio.ensure_future(self.get_full_item(kid))
+                tasks.append(task)
+
+            kids = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
             item["kids"] = kids
         return item
 
-    def get_items_by_id(self, ids: List[int], full=False):
-        for id in ids:
-            if full:
-                yield self.get_full_item(id)
-            else:
-                yield self.get_item(id)
-
-    def get_stories(self, page: str, limit=25, offset=0):
+    async def get_stories(self, page: str, limit=25, offset=0):
         key = f"hnclient_stories_{page}_{limit}"
         cached = self.r.get(key)
         if cached:
             return json.loads(cached)
         url = f"{API_BASEURL}{page}.json"
-        response = self.s.get(url)
-        response.raise_for_status()
-        stories = response.json()[offset:limit]
-        full_stories = list(self.get_items_by_id(stories))
+        async with self.s.get(url) as response:
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            stories = await response.json()
+            stories = stories[offset:limit]
+        tasks = []
+        for id in stories:
+            task = asyncio.ensure_future(self.get_item(id))
+            tasks.append(task)
+
+        full_stories = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
         self.r.set(key, json.dumps(full_stories), ex=60 * 15)
         return full_stories
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index a7eee61..b73cf66 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,3 +1,44 @@
+[[package]]
+name = "aiohttp"
+version = "3.7.4.post0"
+description = "Async http client/server framework (asyncio)"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+async-timeout = ">=3.0,<4.0"
+attrs = ">=17.3.0"
+chardet = ">=2.0,<5.0"
+multidict = ">=4.5,<7.0"
+typing-extensions = ">=3.6.5"
+yarl = ">=1.0,<2.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+speedups = ["aiodns", "brotlipy", "cchardet"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "async-timeout"
+version = "3.0.1"
+description = "Timeout context manager for asyncio programs"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5.3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "attrs"
+version = "20.3.0"
+description = "Classes Without Boilerplate"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six", "zope.interface", "furo", "sphinx", "pre-commit"]
+docs = ["furo", "sphinx", "zope.interface"]
+tests = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six", "zope.interface"]
+tests_no_zope = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "certifi"
 version = "2020.12.5"
@@ -41,6 +82,14 @@ dev = ["pytest", "coverage", "tox", "sphinx", "pallets-sphinx-themes", "sphinxco
 docs = ["sphinx", "pallets-sphinx-themes", "sphinxcontrib-log-cabinet", "sphinx-issues"]
 dotenv = ["python-dotenv"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "h11"
+version = "0.12.0"
+description = "A pure-Python, bring-your-own-I/O implementation of HTTP/1.1"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hiredis"
 version = "2.0.0"
@@ -87,6 +136,14 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "multidict"
+version = "5.1.0"
+description = "multidict implementation"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redis"
 version = "3.5.3"
@@ -116,6 +173,25 @@ urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<1.27"
 security = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)"]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)", "win-inet-pton"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "starlette"
+version = "0.14.2"
+description = "The little ASGI library that shines."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.extras]
+full = ["aiofiles", "graphene", "itsdangerous", "jinja2", "python-multipart", "pyyaml", "requests"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "typing-extensions"
+version = "3.7.4.3"
+description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "urllib3"
 version = "1.26.4"
@@ -129,6 +205,21 @@ secure = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "cer
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 brotli = ["brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uvicorn"
+version = "0.13.4"
+description = "The lightning-fast ASGI server."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+click = ">=7.0.0,<8.0.0"
+h11 = ">=0.8"
+
+[package.extras]
+standard = ["websockets (>=8.0.0,<9.0.0)", "watchgod (>=0.6)", "python-dotenv (>=0.13)", "PyYAML (>=5.1)", "httptools (>=0.1.0,<0.2.0)", "uvloop (>=0.14.0,!=0.15.0,!=0.15.1)", "colorama (>=0.4)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "werkzeug"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -141,12 +232,71 @@ python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 dev = ["pytest", "pytest-timeout", "coverage", "tox", "sphinx", "pallets-sphinx-themes", "sphinx-issues"]
 watchdog = ["watchdog"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "yarl"
+version = "1.6.3"
+description = "Yet another URL library"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+idna = ">=2.0"
+multidict = ">=4.0"
+
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "c20d734d8ba300fc5f5d191c7f1091c1bca7e2ae96a4dbf681e8e7ee90d0973f"
+content-hash = "7552fbc268d31b1dde9302c281712ca841b6f5c996d2feed94321b47d1a47be3"
 
 [metadata.files]
+aiohttp = [
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+    {file = "aiohttp-3.7.4.post0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux2014_ppc64le.whl", hash = "sha256:c6e9dcb4cb338d91a73f178d866d051efe7c62a7166653a91e7d9fb18274058f"},
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+]
+async-timeout = [
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@@ -163,6 +313,10 @@ flask = [
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 ]
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+]
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@@ -272,6 +426,45 @@ markupsafe = [
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d0854a4..8a58880 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ authors = ["Lukas Winkler <git@lw1.at>"]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.9"
-Flask = "^1.1.2"
-requests = "^2.25.1"
 redis = "^3.5.3"
 hiredis = "^2.0.0"
+aiohttp = "^3.7.4"
+starlette = "^0.14.2"
+uvicorn = "^0.13.4"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 
diff --git a/reader/__init__.py b/reader/__init__.py
index f5b3923..46b755f 100644
--- a/reader/__init__.py
+++ b/reader/__init__.py
@@ -1,21 +1,17 @@
+import asyncio
 import json
-import subprocess
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from redis import Redis
-from requests import Session
-
 
 class Reader:
-    def __init__(self, url: str, requests_session: Session, redis: Redis):
-        self.url = url
-        self.s = requests_session
-        self.r = redis
-
-    def readable_html(self):
+    async def readable_html(self, url: str):
         php_file = Path(__file__).parent / "reader.php"
-        output = subprocess.run(["php", str(php_file)], input=self.url.encode(), capture_output=True)
-        data = json.loads(output.stdout.decode())
+        process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
+            "php", str(php_file),
+            stdin=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
+            stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE)
+        stdout, stderr = await process.communicate(url.encode())
+        data = json.loads(stdout.decode().strip())
         del data["headers"]
         del data["summary"]
         return json.dumps(data)
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 10d980f..08e3674 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -1,43 +1,54 @@
-import requests
-from flask import Flask, jsonify, make_response
+import aiohttp
 from redis import Redis
+from starlette.applications import Starlette
+from starlette.requests import Request
+from starlette.responses import JSONResponse, Response
+from starlette.routing import Route
 
-from config import user_agent
+from config import debug
 from hnapi import HNClient
 from reader import Reader
 
-app = Flask(__name__)
+conn = aiohttp.TCPConnector(ttl_dns_cache=60 * 10)
+session = aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=conn)
 r = Redis()
-s = requests.session()
-s.headers.update({'User-Agent': user_agent})
+reader = Reader()
 
-api = HNClient(s, r)
+api = HNClient(session, r)
 
 
-@app.route("/api/topstories")
-def topstories():
-    return jsonify(api.get_stories("topstories"))
+async def item(request: Request):
+    item_id = request.path_params["item_id"]
+    data = await api.get_full_item(item_id)
+    return JSONResponse(data)
 
 
-@app.route("/api/item/<int:item_id>")
-def item(item_id):
-    return jsonify(api.get_full_item(item_id))
-
-
-@app.route("/api/read/<int:item_id>")
-def read(item_id):
-    item = api.get_item(item_id)
+async def read(request: Request):
+    item_id = request.path_params["item_id"]
+    item = await api.get_item(item_id)
     if "url" not in item:
         return "Url not found", 404
     key = f"hnclient_read_{item_id}"
 
     cache = r.get(key)
     if cache:
-        response = make_response(cache)
+        response = Response(cache)
     else:
-        readable = Reader(item["url"], s, r)
-        output = readable.readable_html()
+        output = await reader.readable_html(item["url"])
         r.set(key, output, ex=60 * 60 * 24)
-        response = make_response(output)
-    response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
+        response = Response(output)
+    response.media_type = "application/json"
     return response
+
+
+async def topstories(request: Request):
+    data = await api.get_stories("topstories")
+    return JSONResponse(data)
+
+
+app = Starlette(debug=debug, routes=[
+    Route('/api/item/{item_id:int}', item),
+    Route('/api/read/{item_id:int}', read),
+    Route('/api/topstories', topstories),
+])
+
diff --git a/web/snowpack.config.js b/web/snowpack.config.js
index f9fa3eb..1c437c4 100644
--- a/web/snowpack.config.js
+++ b/web/snowpack.config.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
 const proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({
-    target: 'http://localhost:5000',
+    target: 'http://localhost:8000',
     timeout: 30 * 1000
 });