diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Sample projects used to validate all the tools included in this repository.
 
 Currently connects to Jetstream (specifying zstd compression), logs ~100k events, then exits.
 
-Run with `./gradlew sample:run`:
+Run with `./run_sample.sh`:
 ```
 > Task :sample:run
 [main] INFO SampleRunner - hello, bluesky
diff --git a/run_sample.sh b/run_sample.sh
new file mode 100755
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -eou pipefail
+
+./gradlew build shadowJar
+
+java -jar sample/build/libs/sample-all.jar -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m
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