diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 319b82f..3235a44 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+*.tar.gz
+*.zip
+telebit-stable-*
+
 node_modules.*
 *.*.sw*
 etc/acme/
diff --git a/bin-public/telebit b/bin-public/telebit
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6961975
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin-public/telebit
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+"$(dirname $(dirname $0))/bin/node" "$(dirname $(dirname $0))/bin/telebit.js" "$@"
+exit $?
diff --git a/bin-public/telebit.cmd b/bin-public/telebit.cmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbbe766
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin-public/telebit.cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"%~dp0\..\bin\node" "%~dp0\..\bin\telebit.js" %*
diff --git a/scripts/postinstall.js b/scripts/postinstall.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..462eae7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/postinstall.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// use pathman and serviceman to make telebit ready
+
+var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
+var os = require('os');
+var path = require('path');
+var ext = /^win/i.test(os.platform()) ? '.exe' : '';
+
+function run(bin, args) {
+	return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+		var runner = spawn(path.join(bin + ext), args, {
+			windowsHide: true
+		});
+		runner.stdout.on('data', function(chunk) {
+			console.info(chunk.toString('utf8'));
+		});
+		runner.stderr.on('data', function(chunk) {
+			console.error(chunk.toString('utf8'));
+		});
+		runner.on('exit', function(code) {
+			if (0 !== code) {
+				reject(
+					new Error("exited with non-zero status code '" + code + "'")
+				);
+				return;
+			}
+			resolve({ code: code });
+		});
+	});
+}
+
+run('serviceman', [
+	'add',
+	'--name',
+	'telebit',
+	'--title',
+	'Telebit',
+	'--rdns',
+	'io.telebit.remote.telebit',
+	path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'bin', 'telebit.js'),
+	'daemon',
+	'--config',
+	path.join(os.homedir(), '.config/telebit/telebitd.yml')
+])
+	.then(function() {})
+	.catch(function(e) {
+		console.error(e.message);
+	});
diff --git a/scripts/preinstall.js b/scripts/preinstall.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c416601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/preinstall.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// use pathman and serviceman to make telebit ready
+
+var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
+var os = require('os');
+var path = require('path');
+var ext = /^win/i.test(os.platform()) ? '.exe' : '';
+
+function run(bin, args) {
+	return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+		var runner = spawn(path.join(bin + ext), args, {
+			windowsHide: true
+		});
+		var out = '';
+		runner.stdout.on('data', function(chunk) {
+			var txt = chunk.toString('utf8');
+			out += txt;
+		});
+		runner.stderr.on('data', function(chunk) {
+			var txt = chunk.toString('utf8');
+			out += txt;
+		});
+		runner.on('exit', function(code) {
+			if (0 !== code && !/service matching/.test(out)) {
+				console.error(out);
+				reject(
+					new Error("exited with non-zero status code '" + code + "'")
+				);
+				return;
+			}
+			resolve({ code: code });
+		});
+	});
+}
+
+var confpath = path.join(os.homedir(), '.config/telebit');
+require('mkdirp')(confpath, function(err) {
+	if (err) {
+		console.error("Error creating config path '" + confpath + "':");
+		console.error(err);
+	}
+	// not having a config is fine
+});
+
+run('serviceman', ['stop', 'telebit']).catch(function(e) {
+	// TODO ignore
+	console.error(e.message);
+});