# Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569
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**Created:** [May 21, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569 "2025-05-21T13:26:50Z")
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### Author: ![JulienMalka](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/julienmalka/32/16871_2.png) [@JulienMalka](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/JulienMalka)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569/1 "2025-05-21T13:26:50Z")

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> **[Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts](https://luj.fr/blog/artiflakery-webserver-flake-artifacts.html)**
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> Julien Malka homepage

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### Author: ![fzakaria](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/fzakaria/32/2643_2.png) [@fzakaria](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/fzakaria)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569/2 "2025-05-21T17:54:15Z")

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If you had your github flake just point to `main` at GitHub is that the same thing?  
I’m not quite sure of the difference.

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### Author: ![JulienMalka](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/julienmalka/32/16871_2.png) [@JulienMalka](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/JulienMalka)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569/3 "2025-05-21T18:38:23Z")

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What do you mean? There is probably a misunderstanding somewhere, the goal is not to serve a flake, but a flake artifact: a pdf for example.

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### Author: ![waffle8946](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/waffle8946/32/27221_2.png) [@waffle8946](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/waffle8946)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/artiflakery-an-easy-way-to-distribute-static-nix-flake-artifacts/64569/4 "2025-05-28T15:49:39Z")

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AFAICT this is for people who just want the build result and aren’t using nix.
