diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a086fcb3..ed55deab 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "docs"]
     path = docs
     url = https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox.wiki.git
-[submodule "pip_dist"]
-	path = pip_dist
-	url = https://github.com/ArchiveBox/pip-archivebox.git
 [submodule "docker"]
 	path = docker
 	url = https://github.com/ArchiveBox/docker-archivebox.git
diff --git a/bin/build_pip.sh b/bin/build_pip.sh
index b4ce889b..382ca6de 100755
--- a/bin/build_pip.sh
+++ b/bin/build_pip.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ source .venv/bin/activate
 echo "[+] Building sdist, bdist_wheel, and egg_info"
 rm -Rf build dist
 uv build
-cp dist/* ./pip_dist/
 
 echo
-echo "[√] Finished. Don't forget to commit the new sdist and wheel files in ./pip_dist/"
+echo "[√] Finished. Built package in dist/"
diff --git a/pip_dist b/pip_dist
deleted file mode 160000
index 1380be7e..00000000
--- a/pip_dist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 1380be7e4ef156d85957dfef8c6d154ef9880578