diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index aa44cc3..8990f51 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -180,3 +180,5 @@ cython_debug/
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
 
+# nix symlinks stuff here which is nice, but let's not be redundant
+result/
diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efc260c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-schemas": {
+      "locked": {
+        "narHash": "sha256-j8SR19V1SRysyJwpOBF4TLuAvAjF5t+gMiboN4gYQDU=",
+        "rev": "764932025c817d4e500a8d2a4d8c565563923d29",
+        "revCount": 29,
+        "type": "tarball",
+        "url": "https://api.flakehub.com/f/pinned/DeterminateSystems/flake-schemas/0.1.2/018b3da8-4cc3-7fbb-8ff7-1588413c53e2/source.tar.gz"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "type": "tarball",
+        "url": "https://flakehub.com/f/DeterminateSystems/flake-schemas/%2A.tar.gz"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "narHash": "sha256-/UmnB+mEd6Eg3mJBrAgqRcyZX//RSjHphcCO7Ig9Bpk=",
+        "rev": "621f51253edffa1d6f08d5fce4f08614c852d17e",
+        "revCount": 492069,
+        "type": "tarball",
+        "url": "https://api.flakehub.com/f/pinned/NixOS/nixpkgs/0.2305.492069%2Brev-621f51253edffa1d6f08d5fce4f08614c852d17e/018b9714-e62c-710e-98df-31e33982dabc/source.tar.gz"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "type": "tarball",
+        "url": "https://flakehub.com/f/NixOS/nixpkgs/0.2305.%2A.tar.gz"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-schemas": "flake-schemas",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57b6db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# autopackaging themes would be RAD
+# This flake was initially generated by fh, the CLI for FlakeHub (version 0.1.6)
+{
+  inputs = {
+    flake-schemas.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/DeterminateSystems/flake-schemas/*.tar.gz";
+
+    nixpkgs.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/NixOS/nixpkgs/0.2305.*.tar.gz";
+  };
+
+
+  outputs = { self, flake-schemas, nixpkgs }:
+    let
+      supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" "aarch64-darwin" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" ];
+      forEachSupportedSystem = f: nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems (system: f {
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+      });
+
+      python = pkgs: (pkgs.python311.withPackages (py-pkgs: with py-pkgs; [
+        pyqt6
+      ]));
+    in {
+      schemas = flake-schemas.schemas;
+
+      packages = forEachSupportedSystem ({ pkgs }: {
+        default = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+          name = "pesterchum";
+          src = ./.;
+
+          installPhase = ''
+            mkdir -p $out/bin
+            mv * $out/bin/
+            echo "#!/bin/sh" > $out/bin/pesterchum
+            echo "${python pkgs}/bin/python pesterchum.py" >> $out/bin/pesterchum
+          '';
+        };
+      });
+
+      devShells = forEachSupportedSystem ({ pkgs }: {
+        default = pkgs.mkShell {
+
+          packages = with pkgs; [
+            (python pkgs)
+            nixpkgs-fmt
+          ];
+        };
+      });
+    };
+}
diff --git a/result b/result
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..13134de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/result
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/nix/store/982jr61vlj94rhx7k1p2s9dyc54zna0c-pesterchum
\ No newline at end of file