diff --git a/hound/PKGBUILD b/hound/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer: George Rawlinson <grawlinson@archlinux.org>
+
+pkgname=hound
+pkgver=0.4.0
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Lightning fast code searching made easy"
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://github.com/hound-search/hound"
+license=('MIT')
+depends=('glibc')
+makedepends=('go') # no need for npm as the UI is pre-compiled
+optdepends=(
+  'git: for git repositories'
+  'bzr: for bazaar repositories'
+  'mercurial: for mercurial repositories'
+  'svn: for subversion repositories'
+)
+source=(
+  "$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
+  'systemd.service'
+  'sysusers.conf'
+  'tmpfiles.conf'
+)
+sha512sums=('5f72d63269f6ed548abe36a9736a72eadaf8e5149f8190648bfe9f64367084252e4f509321622e4f2ceb14baf03872a7db339aab75266c2d5a40577ab1fbd427'
+            'eca1ca8c4df3bb25fab83ff7ae15671a37f8a02860f606aee683b25263860a18c32855f118a73e802bc98912d39ece065c820a56c234707fff354bec069c03dd'
+            'f683d969f29a84251ef00aa8e1d713a3331756530ef50a3ad738baf15956e5e2b83c8f1611a9e8e8a1c3161c17d375fde54fb42c451849b4578c6a7342226121'
+            '9a26a065237d3edd2f09d399ad1999276304db71398a7737b846a5e70eb0740baab4bdd56dfb225060c3ca995f4c13db9cfec1aebe1825473a6299484bdac5b9')
+b2sums=('eec71fbd4716848901d55db743a81971c2b595330b5a86ed78d0142a9bf42df8c12da196991019d671ad84fa63a746b05bf681f178e166dc0ea10650ee32e4bc'
+        '90f529ed44632f0c17c994d9f80dfdfbda8c7de61a4d7756f05d5aa52c582c9fa7e280a3003b28758097d3fa2311697b8f9c14ff17ca0f90600908581f46e085'
+        'cc66b8408c35c73911fd01c1c4137401ea223db828085e8750f25f4f41f42c2eda3f3fc5a0b3f64e08495ad4a6367a0ff35b132c924f396bfbe4da47899c6edd'
+        '509003822d9bd826b5921d52483c79a5275b1da121e6f88bf66a644681c2a76a7abac5cf8241a094100c164f32e510da04b9f6037cf5e0910c98b062c68742e5')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+  # create directory for build output
+  mkdir build
+
+  # download dependencies
+  go mod vendor
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+  # set Go flags
+  export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}"
+  export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+  export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}"
+
+  go build -v \
+    -trimpath \
+    -buildmode=pie \
+    -mod=vendor \
+    -modcacherw \
+    -ldflags "-linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \
+    -o build \
+    ./cmds/...
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
+  go test -v ./...
+}
+
+package() {
+  # systemd integration
+  install -vDm644 systemd.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/$pkgname.service"
+  install -vDm644 sysusers.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$pkgname.conf"
+  install -vDm644 tmpfiles.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/$pkgname.conf"
+
+  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+  # binary
+  install -vDm755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin" build/*
+
+  # license
+  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" LICENSE
+
+  # documentation
+  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" \
+    CONTRIBUTING.md README.md config-example.json default-config.json docs/*
+}
+
diff --git a/hound/systemd.service b/hound/systemd.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Hound Code Search and Indexing Daemon
+Documentation=https://github.com/hound-search/hound
+Requires=network-online.target
+After=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+User=hound
+Group=hound
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/hound
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/houndd
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=30
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/hound/sysusers.conf b/hound/sysusers.conf
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+++ b/hound/sysusers.conf
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+u hound - "Hound daemon user" /var/lib/hound
diff --git a/hound/tmpfiles.conf b/hound/tmpfiles.conf
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+++ b/hound/tmpfiles.conf
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+d /var/lib/hound 0750 hound hound