diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7c5214c..8791262 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.elc
-
+*.tar
+/dist
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d4ab307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -eu
+
+set -x
+
+if [ ! -f hyde.el ]; then
+    echo "Please execute this script from root of repository"
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+VERSION=$(sed -ne 's|^(defconst hyde/hyde-version "\(.*\)"|\1|p' hyde.el)
+BUILDDIR=dist/Hyde-$VERSION
+
+if [ -d "$BUILDDIR" ]; then
+    rm -rf $BUILDDIR
+fi
+
+mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR"
+
+install -m 644 *.el LICENSE $BUILDDIR
+install -m 644 README.md $BUILDDIR/README
+
+tar -C dist -cvf dist/Hyde-$VERSION.tar Hyde-$VERSION
+echo "dist/Hyde-$VERSION.tar ready for upload."
+
diff --git a/hyde-pkg.el b/hyde-pkg.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e5a801
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyde-pkg.el
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+(define-package "Hyde" "0.3a"
+  "Emacs major mode to create blogs with Jekyll"
+  )