diff --git a/enter-nix-shell b/enter-nix-shell
index c1357e2..c6ce419 100755
--- a/enter-nix-shell
+++ b/enter-nix-shell
@@ -2,4 +2,11 @@
 
 # This script uses nix-shell to build an environment suitable for developing and testing this package
 
-nix-shell -p gnumake python2 nodejs
+# Run this with the "start" argument to automatically download deps and
+# start talking to asjon in the CLI :)
+
+if [ "$1" == "start" ]; then
+  nix-shell -p gnumake python2 nodejs --command "npm install && bin/hubot"
+else
+  nix-shell -p gnumake python2 nodejs
+fi