diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/erlang/rebar3-nix-bootstrap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/erlang/rebar3-nix-bootstrap/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..347ec1d8bb68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/erlang/rebar3-nix-bootstrap/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "rebar3-nix-bootstrap";
+    version = "0.0.1";
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+        owner = "erlang-nix";
+        repo = "rebar3-nix-bootstrap";
+        rev = "${version}";
+        sha256 = "0xyj7j59dmxyl5nhhsmb0r1pihmk0s4k02ga1rfgm30rij6n7431";
+    };
+
+    installFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "Shim command to help bootstrap a rebar3 project on Nix";
+      license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+      homepage = "https://github.com/erl-nix/rebar3-nix-bootstrap";
+      maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ ericbmerritt ];
+    };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8a07b7d2a98e..7cf73f4243e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5095,6 +5095,7 @@ let
 
   rebar = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/rebar { };
   rebar3 = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/rebar3 { };
+  rebar3-nix-bootstrap = callPackage ../development/tools/erlang/rebar3-nix-bootstrap { };
   fetchHex = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/rebar3/fetch-hex.nix { };
 
   erlangPackages = callPackage ../development/erlang-modules { };