diff --git a/www-apps/simpleid/metadata.xml b/www-apps/simpleid/metadata.xml
index 2891eadb9..1d50c59d1 100644
--- a/www-apps/simpleid/metadata.xml
+++ b/www-apps/simpleid/metadata.xml
@@ -13,4 +13,7 @@
https://simpleid.koinic.net/docs/2/
https://github.com/simpleid/simpleid/issues
+
diff --git a/www-apps/simpleid/simpleid-9999-r1.ebuild b/www-apps/simpleid/simpleid-9999-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34ff683bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/simpleid/simpleid-9999-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit git-r3
+
+KEYWORDS=""
+
+DESCRIPTION="A simple, personal OpenID provider written in PHP"
+HOMEPAGE="http://simpleid.koinic.net/"
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/simpleid/simpleid.git"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="2"
+IUSE="nginx"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/php-7.1.18:*
+ >=dev-php/spyc-0.6.1
+ >=dev-php/symfony-console-2.7.9-r1
+ nginx? ( >=www-servers/nginx-1.12.2-r1:* )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+ git-r3_src_unpack
+}
+
+src_install() {
+ mkdir -p /var/cache/simpleid
+ if use nginx; then
+ fowners nginx:nginx /var/cache/simpleid
+ fi
+
+ mkdir -p /etc/simpleid
+
+ mkdir -p /var/db/simpleid
+ if use nginx; then
+ fowners nginx:nginx /var/db/simpleid
+ fi
+
+ mv www/config.php{.dist,}
+ insinto /usr/share/webapps/simpleid
+ doins -r www
+
+ dodoc README.md identities/example*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+ elog "Read https://simpleid.koinic.net/docs/2/installing/#directories carefully"
+ elog "to learn how to proceed with the installation."
+ if use nginx; then
+ einfo "The cache directory is: /var/cache/simpleid"
+ einfo "The identities directory is: /etc/simpleid"
+ einfo "The store directory is: /var/db/simpleid"
+ fi
+}