diff --git a/kiss/src/kiss/Main.hx b/kiss/src/kiss/Main.hx
index bf60eb7b..e5078451 100644
--- a/kiss/src/kiss/Main.hx
+++ b/kiss/src/kiss/Main.hx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package kiss;
 
+import sys.io.Process;
 #if macro
 import haxe.macro.Expr;
 import kiss.Kiss;
@@ -7,9 +8,16 @@ import kiss.Reader;
 import kiss.Stream;
 
 using tink.MacroApi;
-using StringTools;
 #end
 
+import haxe.Json;
+import haxe.io.Path;
+import sys.io.File;
+import sys.io.Process;
+import sys.FileSystem;
+
+using StringTools;
+
 class Main {
     static function main() {
         macroMain();
@@ -24,6 +32,8 @@ class Main {
         switch (args.shift()) {
             case "convert":
                 convert(args);
+            case "new-project":
+                newProject(args);
             case other:
                 // TODO show a helpful list of subcommands
                 Sys.println('$other is not a kiss subcommand');
@@ -33,13 +43,71 @@ class Main {
         return macro null;
     }
 
+    static function promptFor(what:String, ?defaultVal:String) {
+        var prompt = what;
+        if (defaultVal != null) {
+            if (defaultVal.length == 0) {
+                prompt += ' (default empty)';
+            } else {
+                prompt += ' (default $defaultVal)';
+            }
+        }
+        prompt += ": ";
+        Sys.print(prompt);
+        var input = Sys.stdin().readLine();
+        if (input.trim().length == 0) {
+            if (defaultVal != null) {
+                input = defaultVal;
+            } else {
+                Sys.println('value required for $what');
+                Sys.exit(1);
+            }
+        }
+        return input;
+    }
+
+    static function makeFileForNewProject(templateFile:Array<String>, projectName:String, pkg:String) {
+        var kissLibPath = new Process("haxelib", ["libpath", "kiss"]).stdout.readAll().toString().trim();
+        var fullTemplateFilePath = Path.join([kissLibPath, "template"].concat(templateFile));
+        var newFileContent = File.getContent(fullTemplateFilePath).replace("template", pkg);
+        var templateFileInNewProject = [for (part in templateFile) if (part == "template") pkg else part];
+        var newFilePath = Path.join([projectName].concat(templateFileInNewProject));
+        File.saveContent(newFilePath, newFileContent);
+    }
+
+    static function newProject(args:Array<String>) {
+        var name = promptFor("name");
+        var pkg = name.replace("-", "_");
+        var haxelibJson = {
+            "name": name,
+            "url": promptFor("url"),
+            "license": promptFor("license", "LGPL"),
+            "tags": promptFor("tags (comma-separated)", "").split(","),
+            "description": promptFor("description", ""),
+            "version": "0.0.0",
+            "releasenote": "",
+            "contributors": [promptFor("author")],
+            "classPath": "src/",
+            "main": '${pkg}.Main',
+            "dependencies": {
+                "kiss": ""
+            }
+        };
+        FileSystem.createDirectory('$name/src/$pkg');
+        makeFileForNewProject(["src", "template", "Main.hx"], name, pkg);
+        makeFileForNewProject(["src", "template", "Main.kiss"], name, pkg);
+        makeFileForNewProject(["build.hxml"], name, pkg);
+        makeFileForNewProject(["test.sh"], name, pkg);
+        File.saveContent('$name/haxelib.json', Json.stringify(haxelibJson));
+    }
+
     static function convert(args:Array<String>) {
         // `kiss convert` converts its stdin input to Haxe expressions.
         // with --all, it reads everything from stdin at once (for piping). Without --all, it acts as a repl,
         // where \ at the end of a line signals that the expression is not complete
         // TODO write tests for this
         // TODO use this to implement runAtRuntime() for sys targets by running a haxe subprocess
-
+        #if macro
         var k = Kiss.defaultKissState();
         k.wrapListExps = false;
         var pretty = args.indexOf("--pretty") != -1;
@@ -83,7 +151,6 @@ class Main {
                 }
             } catch (e:haxe.io.Eof) {}
         }
-
-        var line = "";
+        #end
     }
 }
diff --git a/kiss/template/build.hxml b/kiss/template/build.hxml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e9b3b61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiss/template/build.hxml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+-lib kiss
+-cp src
+--main template.Main
+--interp
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/kiss/template/haxelib.json b/kiss/template/haxelib.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3eebe88d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiss/template/haxelib.json
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+    "name": "template",
+    "url": "https://github.com/hissvn/kisslang",
+    "license": "LGPL",
+    "tags": [],
+    "description": "",
+    "version": "0.0.0",
+    "releasenote": "",
+    "contributors": ["NQNStudios"],
+    "classPath": "src/",
+    "main": "template.Main",
+    "dependencies": {
+        "kiss": ""
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/template/src/Main.hx b/kiss/template/src/template/Main.hx
similarity index 82%
rename from template/src/Main.hx
rename to kiss/template/src/template/Main.hx
index a2b9dd4d..e38e7391 100644
--- a/template/src/Main.hx
+++ b/kiss/template/src/template/Main.hx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package;
+package template;
 
 import kiss.Kiss;
 import kiss.Prelude;
diff --git a/template/src/Main.kiss b/kiss/template/src/template/Main.kiss
similarity index 100%
rename from template/src/Main.kiss
rename to kiss/template/src/template/Main.kiss
diff --git a/template/test.sh b/kiss/template/test.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 100%
rename from template/test.sh
rename to kiss/template/test.sh
diff --git a/template/build.hxml b/template/build.hxml
deleted file mode 100644
index c56fd45b..00000000
--- a/template/build.hxml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
--lib kiss
--cp src
---main Main
---interp
\ No newline at end of file