diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 85759b1..3c9d3b1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 vendor
 pkg
 bin
+dist
diff --git a/dist.sh b/dist.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3d1bddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dist.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# build binary distributions for linux/amd64 and darwin/amd64
+set -e 
+
+DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+echo "working dir $DIR"
+
+rm -rf $DIR/vendor
+echo "... refreshing vendor directory"
+./vendor.sh
+
+echo "... running tests"
+gb test || exit 1
+
+arch=$(go env GOARCH)
+version=$(cat $DIR/src/cmd/git-open-pull/version.go | grep "const Version" | awk '{print $NF}' | sed 's/"//g')
+goversion=$(go version | awk '{print $3}')
+
+mkdir -p dist
+for os in linux darwin; do
+    echo "... building v$version for $os/$arch"
+    BUILD=$(mktemp -d -t git-open-pull)
+    TARGET="git-open-pull-$version.$os-$arch.$goversion"
+    GOOS=$os GOARCH=$arch CGO_ENABLED=0 gb build
+    mkdir -p $BUILD/$TARGET
+    cp bin/git-open-pull-$os-$arch $BUILD/$TARGET/git-open-pull
+    pushd $BUILD >/dev/null
+    tar czvf $TARGET.tar.gz $TARGET
+    if [ -e $DIR/dist/$TARGET.tar.gz ]; then
+        echo "... WARNING overwriting dist/$TARGET.tar.gz"
+    fi
+    mv $TARGET.tar.gz $DIR/dist
+    echo "... built dist/$TARGET.tar.gz"
+    popd >/dev/null
+done