diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index 3d9cdf5..fc9e8b7 100755
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ case "$ROLE" in
     echo "[entrypoint] Running alembic upgrade head"
     alembic upgrade head
     echo "[entrypoint] Starting hypercorn on :8080"
+    # create_app is a factory — the `()` tells hypercorn to call it once
+    # and serve the returned Quart (ASGI) app, rather than treating the
+    # function itself as the application (which it then mis-invokes as WSGI).
     exec hypercorn \
       --bind 0.0.0.0:8080 \
       --workers "${HYPERCORN_WORKERS:-2}" \
       --access-logfile - \
-      backend.app:create_app
+      "backend.app:create_app()"
     ;;
 
   worker)