diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1b5c755..2a55231 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -59,9 +59,3 @@ distclean: clean
 
 maintainer-clean: distclean
 	rm -fr .venv/ .tox/
-
-build-requirements:
-	$(VIRTUALENV) $(TEMPDIR)
-	$(TEMPDIR)/bin/pip install -U pip
-	$(TEMPDIR)/bin/pip install -Ue .
-	$(TEMPDIR)/bin/pip freeze | grep -v -- '-e' > requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cdb8de..0000000
--- a/requirements.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-backoff
-requests
-unidecode
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ece3be2..5ccc8c0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,34 +1,21 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.9
-# To update, run:
-#
-#    pip-compile --generate-hashes
-#
 backoff==2.1.2 \
     --hash=sha256:407f1bc0f22723648a8880821b935ce5df8475cf04f7b6b5017ae264d30f6069 \
     --hash=sha256:b135e6d7c7513ba2bfd6895bc32bc8c66c6f3b0279b4c6cd866053cfd7d3126b
-    # via -r requirements.in
 certifi==2021.10.8 \
     --hash=sha256:78884e7c1d4b00ce3cea67b44566851c4343c120abd683433ce934a68ea58872 \
     --hash=sha256:d62a0163eb4c2344ac042ab2bdf75399a71a2d8c7d47eac2e2ee91b9d6339569
-    # via requests
 charset-normalizer==2.0.7 \
     --hash=sha256:e019de665e2bcf9c2b64e2e5aa025fa991da8720daa3c1138cadd2fd1856aed0 \
     --hash=sha256:f7af805c321bfa1ce6714c51f254e0d5bb5e5834039bc17db7ebe3a4cec9492b
-    # via requests
 idna==3.3 \
     --hash=sha256:84d9dd047ffa80596e0f246e2eab0b391788b0503584e8945f2368256d2735ff \
     --hash=sha256:9d643ff0a55b762d5cdb124b8eaa99c66322e2157b69160bc32796e824360e6d
-    # via requests
 requests==2.28.1 \
     --hash=sha256:7c5599b102feddaa661c826c56ab4fee28bfd17f5abca1ebbe3e7f19d7c97983 \
     --hash=sha256:8fefa2a1a1365bf5520aac41836fbee479da67864514bdb821f31ce07ce65349
-    # via -r requirements.in
 unidecode==1.3.4 \
     --hash=sha256:8e4352fb93d5a735c788110d2e7ac8e8031eb06ccbfe8d324ab71735015f9342 \
     --hash=sha256:afa04efcdd818a93237574791be9b2817d7077c25a068b00f8cff7baa4e59257
-    # via -r requirements.in
 urllib3==1.26.7 \
     --hash=sha256:4987c65554f7a2dbf30c18fd48778ef124af6fab771a377103da0585e2336ece \
     --hash=sha256:c4fdf4019605b6e5423637e01bc9fe4daef873709a7973e195ceba0a62bbc844
-    # via requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 271fb7c..d7d95d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ def read_file(filename):
 CHANGELOG = read_file("CHANGELOG.rst")
 
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = [
-    x.replace(" \\", "")
-    for x in read_file("./requirements.txt").split("\n")
-    if not x.startswith(" ")
+    "requests",
+    "backoff",
+    "unidecode",
 ]
 
 TESTS_REQUIRE = [