diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -452,6 +452,13 @@ pub enum Gender {
 }
 ```
 
+## Nix
+
+The prost project maintains flakes support for local development. Once you have
+nix and nix flakes setup you can just run `nix develop` to get a shell
+configured with the required dependencies to compile the whole project.
+
+
 ## FAQ
 
 1. **Could `prost` be implemented as a serializer for [Serde](https://serde.rs/)?**
diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5cb2e9ea6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1667395993,
+        "narHash": "sha256-nuEHfE/LcWyuSWnS8t12N1wc105Qtau+/OdUAjtQ0rA=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "5aed5285a952e0b949eb3ba02c12fa4fcfef535f",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1667969101,
+        "narHash": "sha256-GL53T705HO7Q/KVfbb5STx8AxFs8YgaGY8pvAZC+O7U=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "bbf77421ac51a7c93f5f0f760da99e4dbce614fa",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixpkgs-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac943ea47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  description = "Prost dependencies";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-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
+      {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          packages = with pkgs; [ cargo rustc ];
+          buildInputs = with pkgs; [ pkg-config protobuf curl ];
+        };
+      });
+}