diff --git a/.nixignore b/.nixignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d6cedcb70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.nixignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.nix
+flake.lock
diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3c50638bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1710146030,
+        "narHash": "sha256-SZ5L6eA7HJ/nmkzGG7/ISclqe6oZdOZTNoesiInkXPQ=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "b1d9ab70662946ef0850d488da1c9019f3a9752a",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1710272261,
+        "narHash": "sha256-g0bDwXFmTE7uGDOs9HcJsfLFhH7fOsASbAuOzDC+fhQ=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "0ad13a6833440b8e238947e47bea7f11071dc2b2",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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index 0000000000..3b4a77da09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "i3-compatible Wayland compositor";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+  };
+
+  outputs =
+    {
+      self,
+      nixpkgs,
+      flake-utils,
+    }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (
+      system:
+      let
+        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+        sway-unwrapped = pkgs.sway-unwrapped.overrideAttrs (
+          previous: {
+            src = pkgs.nix-gitignore.gitignoreSource [ ./.nixignore ] ./.;
+          }
+        );
+        sway = pkgs.sway.override {sway-unwrapped=sway-unwrapped;};
+      in
+      {
+        packages.default = sway;
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell { inputsFrom = [ sway ]; };
+      }
+    );
+}