diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 990f5b5..dd4a126 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,38 @@
-# nix-doom-emacs
\ No newline at end of file
+# nix-doom-emacs
+
+Nix expression to install and configure
+[doom-emacs](https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs).
+
+The expression builds a `doom-emacs` distribution with dependencies
+pre-installed based on an existing `~/.doom.d` directory.
+
+It is not a fully fledged exprerience as some dependenices are not installed and
+some may not be fully compatible as the version available in NixOS or
+[emacs-overlay](https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay) may not be
+compatible with the `doom-emacs` requirements.
+
+## Getting started
+
+Using [home-manager](https://github.com/rycee/home-manager):
+
+ ``` nix
+{ pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  doomPrivateDir = ./doom.d;
+
+  doom-emacs = pkgs.callPackage (builtins.fetchTarball {
+    url = https://github.com/vlaci/nix-doom-emacs/archive/master.tar.gz;
+  }) { inherit doomPrivateDir; };
+in {
+  home.packages = [ doom-emacs ];
+  home.file.".doom.d".source = doomPrivateDir;
+  home.file.".emacs.d".source = doom-emacs.emacsd;
+}
+```
+
+## Under the hood
+
+This expression leverages
+[nix-straight.el](https://github.com/vlaci/nix-straight.el) under the hood for
+installing depdendencies. The restrictions of that package apply here too.
diff --git a/advice.el b/advice.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e85ca8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/advice.el
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+;;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
+(advice-add 'nix-straight-get-used-packages
+            :before (lambda (&rest r)
+                      (message "Advising doom installer to gather packages to install...")
+                      (advice-add 'doom-reload-autoloads
+                                  :override (lambda (&optional file force-p)
+                                              (message "Skipping generating autoloads...")))
+                      (advice-add 'doom--format-print
+                                  :around (lambda (orig-print &rest r)
+                                            (let ((noninteractive nil))
+                                              (apply orig-print r))))))
+
+
+
+(advice-add 'doom-call-process
+            :before (lambda (&rest r)
+                    (message "> call-process %s" r)))
+(advice-add 'doom-call-process
+            :after (lambda (&rest r)
+                    (message "< call-process %s" r)))
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb07c09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+{ # The files would be going to ~/.config/doom (~/.doom.d)
+  doomPrivateDir
+  # Package set to install emacs and dependent packages from
+, emacsPackages
+, lib
+, pkgs
+, stdenv
+, buildEnv
+, makeWrapper
+, runCommand
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, substituteAll
+, writeScriptBin
+, writeTextDir }:
+
+let
+  # Packages we need to get the default doom configuration run
+  overrides = self: super: {
+    evil-escape = super.evil-escape.overrideAttrs (esuper: {
+      patches = [ ./evil-escape.patch ];
+    });
+    org-yt = self.trivialBuild rec {
+      pname = "org-yt";
+      version = "1";
+      recipe = null;
+      ename = pname;
+      src = fetchFromGitHub {
+        owner = "TobiasZawada";
+        repo = "org-yt";
+        rev = "40cc1ac76d741055cbefa13860d9f070a7ade001";
+        sha256 = "0jsm3azb7lwikvc53z4p91av8qvda9s15wij153spkgjp83kld3p";
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  # Stage 1: prepare source for byte-compilation
+  doomSrc = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "doom-src";
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "hlissner";
+      repo = "doom-emacs";
+      rev = "22ae9cca15f5aa9215cf0ec2c7b0b78d64deddc0";
+      sha256 = "0nya6qf2v0snd4zskxxradqdpiylpx3lxfrfi7xs04yb39ma99pn";
+    };
+    phases = ["unpackPhase" "patchPhase" "installPhase"];
+    patches = [
+      (substituteAll {
+        src = ./fix-paths-pre.patch;
+        private = builtins.toString doomPrivateDir;
+      })
+    ];
+    installPhase = ''
+      mkdir -p $out
+      cp -r * $out
+    '';
+  };
+
+  # Stage 2:: install dependencies and byte-compile prepared source
+  doomLocal =
+    let
+      straight-env = pkgs.callPackage (fetchFromGitHub {
+        owner = "vlaci";
+        repo = "nix-straight.el";
+        rev = "v1.0";
+        sha256 = "038dss49bfvpj15psh5pr9jyavivninl0rzga9cn8qyc4g2cj5i0";
+      }) {
+        emacsPackages = emacsPackages.overrideScope' overrides;
+        emacsLoadFiles = [ ./advice.el ];
+        emacsArgs = [
+          "install"
+          "--no-fonts"
+          "--no-env"
+        ];
+
+      # Need to reference a store path here, as byte-compilation will bake-in
+      # absolute path to source files.
+        emacsInitFile = "${doomSrc}/bin/doom";
+      };
+
+      packages = straight-env.packageList (super: {
+        phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+        preInstall = ''
+          export DOOMDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+          export DOOMLOCALDIR=$DOOMDIR/local/
+          cp ${doomPrivateDir}/* $DOOMDIR
+        '';
+      });
+
+      # I don't know why but byte-compilation somehow triggers Emacs to look for
+      # the git executable. It does not seem to be executed though...
+      git = writeScriptBin "git" ''
+        >&2 echo Executing git is not allowed; command line: "$@"
+      '';
+    in (straight-env.emacsEnv {
+      inherit packages;
+      straightDir = "$DOOMLOCALDIR/straight";
+    }).overrideAttrs (super: {
+      phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+      buildInputs = super.buildInputs ++ [ git ];
+      preInstall = ''
+          export DOOMDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+          export DOOMLOCALDIR=$out/
+          mkdir -p $DOOMDIR
+          cp ${doomPrivateDir}/* $DOOMDIR
+      '';
+    });
+
+  # Stage 3: do additional fixups to refer compiled files in the store
+  # and additional files in the users' home
+  doom-emacs = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "doom-emacs";
+    src = doomSrc;
+    patches = [
+      (substituteAll {
+        src = ./fix-paths.patch;
+        local = doomLocal;
+      })
+    ];
+    buildPhase = ":";
+    installPhase = ''
+      mkdir -p $out
+      cp -r * $out
+    '';
+  };
+
+  # Stage 4: catch-all wrapper capable to run doom-emacs even
+  # without installing ~/.emacs.d
+  emacs = (emacsPackages.emacsWithPackages (epkgs: [
+    (writeTextDir "share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el" ''
+        (message "doom-emacs is not placed in `doom-private-dir',
+        loading from `site-lisp'")
+        (when (> emacs-major-version 26)
+              (load "${doom-emacs}/early-init.el"))
+        (load "${doom-emacs}/init.el")
+      '')
+  ])).overrideAttrs (super: {
+    outputs = [ "out" "emacsd" ];
+    buildInputs = [ doom-emacs ];
+    installPhase = super.installPhase + ''
+      echo ln -snf ${doom-emacs} $emacsd
+      ln -snf ${doom-emacs} $emacsd
+    '';
+  });
+
+in emacs
diff --git a/evil-escape.patch b/evil-escape.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71a6077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/evil-escape.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- a/evil-escape.el
++++ b/evil-ewcape.el
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+- ;;; evil-escape.el --- Escape from anything with a customizable key sequence
++;;; evil-escape.el --- Escape from anything with a customizable key sequence
+ 
+ ;; Copyright (C) 2014-2015 syl20bnr
+ ;;
diff --git a/fix-paths-pre.patch b/fix-paths-pre.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36ae118
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-paths-pre.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/core/autoload/config.el b/core/autoload/config.el
+index 6bb9ae300..81ab62860 100644
+--- a/core/autoload/config.el
++++ b/core/autoload/config.el
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
+ (defun doom/find-file-in-private-config ()
+   "Search for a file in `doom-private-dir' inside nixos-config."
+   (interactive)
+-  (doom-project-find-file doom-private-dir))
++  (doom-project-find-file "@private@"))
+ 
+ ;;;###autoload
+ (defun doom/reload ()
diff --git a/fix-paths.patch b/fix-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6bcd81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+diff --git a/bin/doom b/bin/doom
+index bd381e5ab..37cc69569 100755
+--- a/bin/doom
++++ b/bin/doom
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
+ ":"; DOOMBASE=$(dirname "$0")/..
+ ":"; [ "$1" = -d ] || [ "$1" = --debug ] && { shift; export DEBUG=1; }
+ ":"; [ "$1" = doc ] || [ "$1" = doctor ] && { cd "$DOOMBASE"; shift; exec $EMACS --script bin/doom-doctor "$@"; exit 0; }
+-":"; [ "$1" = run ] && { cd "$DOOMBASE"; shift; exec $EMACS -q --no-splash -l bin/doom "$@"; exit 0; }
++":"; [ "$1" = run ] && { cd "$DOOMBASE"; shift; exec $EMACS -q --no-splash -l bin/.doom-wrapped "$@"; exit 0; }
+ ":"; exec $EMACS --script "$0" -- "$@"
+ ":"; exit 0
+ 
+diff --git a/core/core.el b/core/core.el
+index 9cc1cfc25..fcbc3a3cf 100644
+--- a/core/core.el
++++ b/core/core.el
+@@ -54,20 +54,20 @@ decrease this. If you experience stuttering, increase this.")
+ 
+ (defvar doom-local-dir
+   (or (getenv "DOOMLOCALDIR")
+-      (concat doom-emacs-dir ".local/"))
++      "@local@/")
+   "Root directory for local storage.
+ 
+ Use this as a storage location for this system's installation of Doom Emacs.
+ These files should not be shared across systems. By default, it is used by
+ `doom-etc-dir' and `doom-cache-dir'. Must end with a slash.")
+ 
+-(defvar doom-etc-dir (concat doom-local-dir "etc/")
++(defvar doom-etc-dir "~/.local/doom"
+   "Directory for non-volatile local storage.
+ 
+ Use this for files that don't change much, like server binaries, external
+ dependencies or long-term shared data. Must end with a slash.")
+ 
+-(defvar doom-cache-dir (concat doom-local-dir "cache/")
++(defvar doom-cache-dir "~/.cache/doom/"
+   "Directory for volatile local storage.
+ 
+ Use this for files that change often, like cache files. Must end with a slash.")
+@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ users).")
+ (setq abbrev-file-name             (concat doom-local-dir "abbrev.el")
+       async-byte-compile-log-file  (concat doom-etc-dir "async-bytecomp.log")
+       bookmark-default-file        (concat doom-etc-dir "bookmarks")
+-      custom-file                  (concat doom-private-dir "init.el")
++      custom-file                  (concat doom-etc-dir "init.el")
+       custom-theme-directory       (concat doom-private-dir "themes/")
+       desktop-dirname              (concat doom-etc-dir "desktop")
+       desktop-base-file-name       "autosave"