diff --git a/gulpfile.babel.js b/gulpfile.babel.js
index e8de1b8..9f18d2b 100644
--- a/gulpfile.babel.js
+++ b/gulpfile.babel.js
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import sourcemaps from 'gulp-sourcemaps';
 import webpack from 'webpack-stream';
 import babel from 'gulp-babel';
 import runSequence from 'run-sequence';
-
 import path from 'path';
+import childProcess from 'child_process';
 
 const PATHS = setUpPaths();
 
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ gulp.task('watch', ['build'], () => {
         .on('error', handleError);
 });
 
+gulp.task('publish', done => {
+    childProcess.spawn('npm', ['publish'], {stdio: 'inherit'})
+        .on('close', done);
+});
+
+gulp.task('release', callback => {
+    return runSequence('build', 'publish', callback);
+});
+
 function setUpPaths() {
     const paths = {
         WEBPACK_CONFIG: './webpack.config.js',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f7f1b72..c5c5d99 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@
   "scripts": {
     "dev-up": "npm install && (cd app && npm install)",
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
+    "clean": "gulp clean",
     "build": "gulp build",
     "watch": "while true ; do gulp watch ; done",
     "package-placeholder": "npm run build && node lib/cli.js http://www.medium.com ~/Desktop --overwrite && open ~/Desktop/Medium-darwin-x64/Medium.app",
     "start-placeholder": "npm run build && electron app",
-    "clean": "gulp clean"
+    "release": "gulp release"
   },
   "bin": {
     "nativefier": "lib/cli.js"