diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b931df8..ae45d31 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ infrastructure or key generation (which otherwise takes a few seconds).
 
 ### Building and naming the snapshot
 
-Script `build.sh` runs `make` and copies the executables to `../bin/<current git HEAD hash>`.
+Script `dev-utils/build.sh` runs `make` and copies the executables to `../bin/<current git HEAD hash>`.
+This is useful when wanting to compile some snapshots to compare how different versions behave.
 
 ## Networking
 
diff --git a/compiler/build.sh b/compiler/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7cba932..0000000
--- a/compiler/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Builds and copies the executables to ../bin/<current git HEAD hash>
-make
-echo ""
-dir="./../bin/$(git describe --long --dirty --always)"
-mkdir -p $dir
-cp ./../bin/* $dir 2>/dev/null
-echo "Copied executables to $dir"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev-utils/build-snapshot.sh b/dev-utils/build-snapshot.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b86e0ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-utils/build-snapshot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Builds and copies the executables to bin/<current git HEAD hash>
+# This is useful when wanting to compile some snapshots to compare how different versions behave.
+make
+echo ""
+dir="bin/$(git describe --long --dirty --always)"
+mkdir -p $dir
+cp bin/* $dir 2>/dev/null
+echo "Copied executables to $dir"