diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ba6ab84e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1731533236,
+        "narHash": "sha256-l0KFg5HjrsfsO/JpG+r7fRrqm12kzFHyUHqHCVpMMbI=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "11707dc2f618dd54ca8739b309ec4fc024de578b",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1732014248,
+        "narHash": "sha256-y/MEyuJ5oBWrWAic/14LaIr/u5E0wRVzyYsouYY3W6w=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "23e89b7da85c3640bbc2173fe04f4bd114342367",
+        "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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09e5f4701
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{
+  description = "Dev shell to help contributing to liana";
+
+  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 = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+      in {
+        devShell = pkgs.mkShell rec {
+          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+            expat
+            fontconfig
+            freetype
+            freetype.dev
+            libGL
+            pkg-config
+            udev
+            wayland
+            libxkbcommon
+            xorg.libX11
+            xorg.libXcursor
+            xorg.libXi
+            xorg.libXrandr
+          ];
+
+          LD_LIBRARY_PATH =
+            builtins.foldl' (a: b: "${a}:${b}/lib") "${pkgs.vulkan-loader}/lib" buildInputs;
+        };
+      }
+    );
+}
+
diff --git a/liana-gui/shell.nix b/liana-gui/shell.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fc3b5057..000000000
--- a/liana-gui/shell.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Nixos 23.11 comes with libc 2.38, this version of libc may not be compatible
-# with some drivers. For now the hack found is to user a community wrapper that
-# detects the requirements and do the link (https://github.com/guibou/nixGL).
-# usage:
-# nixGL cargo run
-
-let
-   nixgl = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/guibou/nixGL/archive/master.tar.gz") {};
-   pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
-in
-pkgs.mkShell rec {
-  buildInputs = with pkgs; [
-    pkgs.expat
-    pkgs.fontconfig
-    pkgs.freetype
-    pkgs.freetype.dev
-    pkgs.libGL
-    pkgs.pkg-config
-    pkgs.udev
-    pkgs.wayland
-    pkgs.libxkbcommon
-    pkgs.xorg.libX11
-    pkgs.xorg.libXcursor
-    pkgs.xorg.libXi
-    pkgs.xorg.libXrandr
-    nixgl.auto.nixGLDefault
-  ];
-
-  LD_LIBRARY_PATH =
-    builtins.foldl' (a: b: "${a}:${b}/lib") "${pkgs.vulkan-loader}/lib" buildInputs;
-}
-