diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index e8b9a21d..ac647e8f 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-rm -rf dist
-java -Xms512M -Xmx2G -Xss2M -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=192m -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar sbt/sbt-launch.jar -Dsbt.parser.simple=true clean test 'set every publishTo := Some(Resolver.file("local-repo", file("dist")))' '+ publish'
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+java -Xms512M -Xmx2G -Xss2M -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=192m -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar sbt/sbt-launch.jar -Dsbt.parser.simple=true clean test 'set every publishTo := Some(Resolver.file("local-repo", file("target/dist")))' '+ publish'
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diff --git a/clean.sh b/clean.sh
index 1ea17e36..54618bce 100755
--- a/clean.sh
+++ b/clean.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-rm -rf dist
 java -Xms512M -Xmx2G -Xss2M -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=192m -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar sbt/sbt-launch.jar -Dsbt.parser.simple=true clean
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diff --git a/gradle/shipkit.gradle b/gradle/shipkit.gradle
index 554a4f50..b216ef2c 100644
--- a/gradle/shipkit.gradle
+++ b/gradle/shipkit.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ shipkit {
 }
 
 //all contents of this directory will be uploaded to Bintray
-ext.releaseSpec = fileTree("dist")
+ext.releaseSpec = fileTree("target/dist")
 
 allprojects {
     plugins.withId("org.shipkit.bintray") {
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ allprojects {
                 licenses = ['MIT']
                 labels = ['mocks', 'tdd', 'unit tests']
 				publish = true //can be changed to 'false' for testing
-                
+
                 filesSpec {
            			from releaseSpec
            			into '.'