diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index d36bf53..c8fed26 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -4,69 +4,50 @@
     utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
   };
   outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }:
-    let
-      perSystem = utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
-        let
-          pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
-        in {
-          packages = {
-            tide-backend = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/packages/backend.nix { };
-            tide-frontend = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/packages/frontend.nix {
-              apiUrl = "https://apitide.yisroelbaum.com";
-            };
-          };
+    utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+      let
+        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+      in {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+            onefetch
+            php
+            phpPackages.composer
+            phpPackages.php-codesniffer
+            vscode-langservers-extracted
+            sqlite
+            nodejs
+            nixfmt-rfc-style
+            nixfmt-tree
+            cypress
+            yaml-language-server
+            typescript
+            postgresql
+            process-compose
+            mailpit
+          ];
 
-          devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
-            buildInputs = with pkgs; [
-              onefetch
-              php
-              phpPackages.composer
-              phpPackages.php-codesniffer
-              vscode-langservers-extracted
-              sqlite
-              nodejs
-              nixfmt-rfc-style
-              nixfmt-tree
-              cypress
-              yaml-language-server
-              typescript
-              postgresql
-              process-compose
-              mailpit
-            ];
+          shellHook = ''
+            # Anchor PGDATA to the repo root so subshells in subdirs
+            # (e.g. backend/) reuse the same cluster instead of seeding
+            # a stray .postgres there.
+            REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"
+            export PGDATA="$REPO_ROOT/.postgres"
+            export PGHOST="$PGDATA"
+            export PGUSER="postgres"
+            export PGDATABASE="postgres"
 
-            shellHook = ''
-              # Anchor PGDATA to the repo root so subshells in subdirs
-              # (e.g. backend/) reuse the same cluster instead of seeding
-              # a stray .postgres there.
-              REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"
-              export PGDATA="$REPO_ROOT/.postgres"
-              export PGHOST="$PGDATA"
-              export PGUSER="postgres"
-              export PGDATABASE="postgres"
+            if [ ! -d "$PGDATA" ]; then
+              echo "[pg] initializing cluster at $PGDATA"
+              initdb --auth=trust --username=postgres --no-locale --encoding=UTF8 >/dev/null
+              {
+                echo "listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1'"
+                echo "unix_socket_directories = '$PGDATA'"
+              } >> "$PGDATA/postgresql.conf"
+            fi
 
-              if [ ! -d "$PGDATA" ]; then
-                echo "[pg] initializing cluster at $PGDATA"
-                initdb --auth=trust --username=postgres --no-locale --encoding=UTF8 >/dev/null
-                {
-                  echo "listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1'"
-                  echo "unix_socket_directories = '$PGDATA'"
-                } >> "$PGDATA/postgresql.conf"
-              fi
-
-              echo "[dev] run 'process-compose up' to start postgres + backend + vite"
-            '';
-          };
-        });
-    in
-    perSystem // {
-      nixosModules.tide = import ./nix/module.nix { inherit self; };
-
-      overlays.default = final: prev: {
-        tide-backend = final.callPackage ./nix/packages/backend.nix { };
-        tide-frontend = final.callPackage ./nix/packages/frontend.nix {
-          apiUrl = "https://apitide.yisroelbaum.com";
+            echo "[dev] run 'process-compose up' to start postgres + backend + vite"
+          '';
         };
-      };
-    };
+      });
 }
diff --git a/nix/module.nix b/nix/module.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fa939f..0000000
--- a/nix/module.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,328 +0,0 @@
-{ self }:
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-let
-  cfg = config.services.tide;
-
-  defaultBackend = self.packages.${pkgs.system}.tide-backend;
-  defaultFrontend = self.packages.${pkgs.system}.tide-frontend.override {
-    apiUrl = "https://${cfg.apiDomain}";
-  };
-
-  # The Laravel package lives in the Nix store (read-only). Laravel
-  # needs a writable storage/ and bootstrap/cache/. We materialize a
-  # writable copy at /var/lib/tide/app whose contents are symlinks
-  # back into the store, except for storage/ and bootstrap/cache/
-  # which are real writable directories under /var/lib/tide/state.
-  appRoot = "/var/lib/tide/app";
-  stateRoot = "/var/lib/tide/state";
-
-  poolName = "tide";
-  fpmSocket = "/run/phpfpm/${poolName}.sock";
-in
-{
-  options.services.tide = {
-    enable = lib.mkEnableOption "TIDE blogging platform";
-
-    domain = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      example = "tide.example.com";
-      description = "Domain serving the Vue frontend.";
-    };
-
-    apiDomain = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      example = "apitide.example.com";
-      description = "Domain serving the Laravel backend API.";
-    };
-
-    user = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      default = "tide";
-      description = "Unix user the Laravel process runs as.";
-    };
-
-    group = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      default = "tide";
-      description = "Unix group the Laravel process runs as.";
-    };
-
-    database = {
-      name = lib.mkOption {
-        type = lib.types.str;
-        default = "tide";
-        description = "PostgreSQL database name.";
-      };
-      user = lib.mkOption {
-        type = lib.types.str;
-        default = "tide";
-        description = "PostgreSQL role used by Laravel.";
-      };
-    };
-
-    secretsFile = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.path;
-      description = ''
-        Path to a file containing environment variables for the
-        Laravel pool. Must define APP_KEY at minimum. Read at
-        service start, never copied into the Nix store.
-      '';
-    };
-
-    backendPackage = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.package;
-      default = defaultBackend;
-      defaultText = lib.literalExpression
-        "self.packages.\${pkgs.system}.tide-backend";
-      description = "The Laravel backend derivation.";
-    };
-
-    frontendPackage = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.package;
-      default = defaultFrontend;
-      defaultText = lib.literalExpression
-        "self.packages.\${pkgs.system}.tide-frontend";
-      description = "The Vue frontend derivation (built static dist).";
-    };
-
-    nginx = {
-      useACMEHost = lib.mkOption {
-        type = lib.types.nullOr lib.types.str;
-        default = null;
-        example = "example.com";
-        description = ''
-          Reuse an existing wildcard ACME cert (set this to the
-          apex domain whose cert covers both subdomains). When
-          null, each vhost requests its own cert via
-          enableACME = true.
-        '';
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
-    users.users.${cfg.user} = {
-      isSystemUser = true;
-      group = cfg.group;
-      home = "/var/lib/tide";
-    };
-    users.groups.${cfg.group} = { };
-
-    systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
-      "d /var/lib/tide                       0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}                        0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage                0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/app            0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/app/public     0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/framework      0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/framework/cache         0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/framework/sessions      0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/framework/views         0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/framework/testing       0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/storage/logs           0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-      "d ${stateRoot}/bootstrap-cache        0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} -"
-    ];
-
-    # Materialize the writable app root by symlinking from the
-    # store package, then redirecting the two mutable subtrees
-    # to /var/lib/tide/state.
-    systemd.services.tide-prepare = {
-      description = "Prepare TIDE Laravel app root";
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-      before = [
-        "phpfpm-${poolName}.service"
-        "tide-migrate.service"
-      ];
-      serviceConfig = {
-        Type = "oneshot";
-        RemainAfterExit = true;
-      };
-      script = ''
-        set -eu
-        rm -rf ${appRoot}
-        mkdir -p ${appRoot}
-        for entry in ${cfg.backendPackage}/share/php/tide-backend/*; do
-          name="$(basename "$entry")"
-          case "$name" in
-            storage|bootstrap)
-              ;;
-            *)
-              ln -s "$entry" "${appRoot}/$name"
-              ;;
-          esac
-        done
-        # bootstrap dir: symlink everything from the store
-        # except cache/ which must be writable.
-        mkdir -p ${appRoot}/bootstrap
-        for entry in ${cfg.backendPackage}/share/php/tide-backend/bootstrap/*; do
-          name="$(basename "$entry")"
-          if [ "$name" != "cache" ]; then
-            ln -sf "$entry" "${appRoot}/bootstrap/$name"
-          fi
-        done
-        ln -sfn ${stateRoot}/bootstrap-cache ${appRoot}/bootstrap/cache
-        ln -sfn ${stateRoot}/storage ${appRoot}/storage
-
-        chown -R ${cfg.user}:${cfg.group} ${appRoot} ${stateRoot}
-      '';
-    };
-
-    # Postgres
-    services.postgresql = {
-      enable = true;
-      ensureDatabases = [ cfg.database.name ];
-      ensureUsers = [
-        {
-          name = cfg.database.user;
-          ensureDBOwnership = true;
-        }
-      ];
-    };
-
-    # PHP-FPM pool
-    services.phpfpm.pools.${poolName} = {
-      user = cfg.user;
-      group = cfg.group;
-      phpPackage = cfg.backendPackage.passthru.php;
-      phpEnv = {
-        APP_ENV = "production";
-        APP_DEBUG = "false";
-        APP_URL = "https://${cfg.apiDomain}";
-        LOG_CHANNEL = "stderr";
-        DB_CONNECTION = "pgsql";
-        DB_HOST = "/run/postgresql";
-        DB_PORT = "5432";
-        DB_DATABASE = cfg.database.name;
-        DB_USERNAME = cfg.database.user;
-        SESSION_DRIVER = "database";
-        CACHE_STORE = "database";
-        QUEUE_CONNECTION = "database";
-      };
-      settings = {
-        "listen.owner" = config.services.nginx.user;
-        "listen.group" = config.services.nginx.group;
-        "listen.mode" = "0660";
-        "pm" = "dynamic";
-        "pm.max_children" = 16;
-        "pm.start_servers" = 2;
-        "pm.min_spare_servers" = 2;
-        "pm.max_spare_servers" = 4;
-        "pm.max_requests" = 500;
-        "catch_workers_output" = true;
-        "decorate_workers_output" = false;
-        "clear_env" = false;
-      };
-    };
-
-    # Pull APP_KEY, DB_PASSWORD, MAIL_*, etc. from the secrets
-    # file at start time.
-    systemd.services."phpfpm-${poolName}" = {
-      after = [
-        "tide-prepare.service"
-        "postgresql.service"
-      ];
-      requires = [
-        "tide-prepare.service"
-      ];
-      serviceConfig = {
-        EnvironmentFile = cfg.secretsFile;
-      };
-    };
-
-    # One-shot migrations + cache warm.
-    systemd.services.tide-migrate = {
-      description = "Run TIDE Laravel migrations and cache warm";
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-      after = [
-        "tide-prepare.service"
-        "postgresql.service"
-      ];
-      requires = [
-        "tide-prepare.service"
-        "postgresql.service"
-      ];
-      before = [ "phpfpm-${poolName}.service" ];
-      serviceConfig = {
-        Type = "oneshot";
-        User = cfg.user;
-        Group = cfg.group;
-        EnvironmentFile = cfg.secretsFile;
-        WorkingDirectory = appRoot;
-      };
-      environment = {
-        APP_ENV = "production";
-        APP_DEBUG = "false";
-        APP_URL = "https://${cfg.apiDomain}";
-        DB_CONNECTION = "pgsql";
-        DB_HOST = "/run/postgresql";
-        DB_PORT = "5432";
-        DB_DATABASE = cfg.database.name;
-        DB_USERNAME = cfg.database.user;
-      };
-      script = ''
-        ${cfg.backendPackage.passthru.php}/bin/php artisan migrate --force --no-interaction
-        ${cfg.backendPackage.passthru.php}/bin/php artisan storage:link --force || true
-        ${cfg.backendPackage.passthru.php}/bin/php artisan config:cache
-        ${cfg.backendPackage.passthru.php}/bin/php artisan route:cache
-      '';
-    };
-
-    # nginx vhosts
-    services.nginx = {
-      enable = true;
-      virtualHosts = {
-        "${cfg.apiDomain}" =
-          let
-            sslAttrs =
-              if cfg.nginx.useACMEHost != null then {
-                forceSSL = true;
-                useACMEHost = cfg.nginx.useACMEHost;
-              } else {
-                forceSSL = true;
-                enableACME = true;
-              };
-          in
-          sslAttrs // {
-            root = "${appRoot}/public";
-            locations = {
-              "/" = {
-                tryFiles = "$uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string";
-              };
-              "~ \\.php$" = {
-                extraConfig = ''
-                  fastcgi_pass unix:${fpmSocket};
-                  fastcgi_index index.php;
-                  fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
-                  include ${pkgs.nginx}/conf/fastcgi_params;
-                  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
-                  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
-                  fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
-                '';
-              };
-              "~ /\\.ht" = {
-                extraConfig = "deny all;";
-              };
-            };
-          };
-
-        "${cfg.domain}" =
-          let
-            sslAttrs =
-              if cfg.nginx.useACMEHost != null then {
-                forceSSL = true;
-                useACMEHost = cfg.nginx.useACMEHost;
-              } else {
-                forceSSL = true;
-                enableACME = true;
-              };
-          in
-          sslAttrs // {
-            root = "${cfg.frontendPackage}";
-            locations."/" = {
-              tryFiles = "$uri $uri/ /index.html";
-            };
-          };
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}
diff --git a/nix/packages/backend.nix b/nix/packages/backend.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c662526..0000000
--- a/nix/packages/backend.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{ php84, lib }:
-let
-  php = php84;
-in
-php.buildComposerProject (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "tide-backend";
-  version = "0.1.0";
-
-  src = lib.cleanSource ../../backend;
-
-  composerNoDev = true;
-  composerNoPlugins = true;
-  composerNoScripts = true;
-
-  vendorHash = "sha256-OYpfX435tPJqiOzQPpWPXCVH1rTeQ74dGuNVyk6+c1A=";
-
-  passthru = {
-    inherit php;
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "TIDE Laravel backend";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-  };
-})
diff --git a/nix/packages/frontend.nix b/nix/packages/frontend.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ed9d35..0000000
--- a/nix/packages/frontend.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ buildNpmPackage, lib, nodejs_22, apiUrl }:
-buildNpmPackage (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "tide-frontend";
-  version = "0.0.0";
-
-  src = lib.cleanSource ../../frontend/blog_portal;
-
-  nodejs = nodejs_22;
-
-  npmDepsFetcherVersion = 2;
-  npmDepsHash = "sha256-NHAo9Bvg80W2341yPaw97khUCJyr/7fyQFvhQFKWYnY=";
-
-  env = {
-    VITE_API_URL = apiUrl;
-    # Cypress' postinstall reaches out to download.cypress.io, which
-    # is not allowed inside the Nix sandbox. Cypress is only used
-    # for local E2E so skip the download during the production
-    # build.
-    CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY = "0";
-  };
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-    mkdir -p $out
-    cp -r dist/* $out/
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "TIDE Vue frontend (blog_portal)";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-  };
-})