diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index aa0c8057..b5297328 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ dev: dev-requirements.txt
 prod: requirements.txt
 	pip install -r requirements.txt
 
-run: prod
-	FLASK_DEBUG=1 FLASK_APP=snappass.main NO_SSL=True venv/bin/flask run
+compile-translations:
+        pybabel compile -d snappass/translations
+
+run: prod compile-translations
+        FLASK_DEBUG=1 FLASK_APP=snappass.main NO_SSL=True venv/bin/flask run
 
 test:
 	PYTHONPATH=snappass venv/bin/nosetests -s tests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 44679724..ed2af90c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     long_description=(open('README.rst').read() + '\n\n' +
                       open('AUTHORS.rst').read()),
     url='http://github.com/Pinterest/snappass/',
-    install_requires=['Flask', 'redis', 'cryptography'],
+    install_requires=['Flask', 'redis', 'cryptography', 'flask-babel'],
     license='MIT',
     author='Dave Dash',
     author_email='dd+github@davedash.com',