diff --git a/appimage/build_appimage.sh b/appimage/build_appimage.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..79c5fe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appimage/build_appimage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd ../
+git submodule init
+git submodule update --recursive
+
+yarn
+yarn tauri build --no-bundle
+
+cp src-tauri/target/release/drop-app appimage/drop-oss-app.d/usr/bin
+
+# next thing is dependency fetching. how do we do this without tauri