diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/sourcehut/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/sourcehut/default.nix
index 5a6d011a729..746ddbf8f44 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/misc/sourcehut/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/sourcehut/default.nix
@@ -905,6 +905,11 @@ in
       inherit configIniOfService;
       srvsrht = "buildsrht";
       port = 5002;
+      extraServices.buildsrht-api = {
+        serviceConfig.Restart = "always";
+        serviceConfig.RestartSec = "2s";
+        serviceConfig.ExecStart = "${pkgs.sourcehut.buildsrht}/bin/buildsrht-api -b ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString (cfg.builds.port + 100)}";
+      };
       # TODO: a celery worker on the master and worker are apparently needed
       extraServices.buildsrht-worker = let
         qemuPackage = pkgs.qemu_kvm;
@@ -928,13 +933,13 @@ in
           fi
         '';
         serviceConfig = {
-          ExecStart = "${pkgs.sourcehut.buildsrht}/bin/builds.sr.ht-worker";
+          ExecStart = "${pkgs.sourcehut.buildsrht}/bin/buildsrht-worker";
           BindPaths = [ cfg.settings."builds.sr.ht::worker".buildlogs ];
           LogsDirectory = [ "sourcehut/${serviceName}" ];
           RuntimeDirectory = [ "sourcehut/${serviceName}/subdir" ];
           StateDirectory = [ "sourcehut/${serviceName}" ];
           TimeoutStartSec = "1800s";
-          # builds.sr.ht-worker looks up ../config.ini
+          # buildsrht-worker looks up ../config.ini
           WorkingDirectory = "-"+"/run/sourcehut/${serviceName}/subdir";
         };
       };
@@ -952,12 +957,12 @@ in
           ) cfg.builds.images
         );
         image_dir_pre = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
-          name = "builds.sr.ht-worker-images-pre";
+          name = "buildsrht-worker-images-pre";
           paths = image_dirs;
             # FIXME: not working, apparently because ubuntu/latest is a broken link
             # ++ [ "${pkgs.sourcehut.buildsrht}/lib/images" ];
         };
-        image_dir = pkgs.runCommand "builds.sr.ht-worker-images" { } ''
+        image_dir = pkgs.runCommand "buildsrht-worker-images" { } ''
           mkdir -p $out/images
           cp -Lr ${image_dir_pre}/* $out/images
         '';
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sourcehut/builds.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sourcehut/builds.nix
index 350afd07fe1..e2cc01eb9c7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sourcehut/builds.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sourcehut/builds.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { lib
 , fetchFromSourcehut
-, buildPythonPackage
 , buildGoModule
+, buildPythonPackage
 , srht
 , redis
 , celery
@@ -9,21 +9,29 @@
 , markdown
 , ansi2html
 , python
+, unzip
 }:
 let
-  version = "0.75.2";
+  version = "0.79.1";
 
   src = fetchFromSourcehut {
     owner = "~sircmpwn";
     repo = "builds.sr.ht";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-SwyxMzmp9baRQ0vceuEn/OpfIv7z7jwq/l67hdOHXjM=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-8fZ6KdD+9+n0uO3jm0AUyG08oCUNFq1K55ZOwLbkpHk=";
   };
 
-  buildWorker = src: buildGoModule {
+  buildsrht-api = buildGoModule ({
     inherit src version;
-    pname = "builds-sr-ht-worker";
+    pname = "buildsrht-api";
+    modRoot = "api";
+    vendorSha256 = "sha256-roTwqtg4Y846PNtLdRN/LV3Jd0LVElqjFy3DJcrwoaI=";
+  } // import ./fix-gqlgen-trimpath.nix {inherit unzip;});
 
+  buildsrht-worker = buildGoModule {
+    inherit src version;
+    sourceRoot = "source/worker";
+    pname = "buildsrht-worker";
     vendorSha256 = "sha256-Pf1M9a43eK4jr6QMi6kRHA8DodXQU0pqq9ua5VC3ER0=";
   };
 in
@@ -35,6 +43,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # Revert change breaking Unix socket support for Redis
     patches/redis-socket/build/0001-Revert-Add-build-submission-and-queue-monitoring.patch
   ];
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace Makefile \
+      --replace "all: api worker" ""
+  '';
 
   nativeBuildInputs = srht.nativeBuildInputs;
 
@@ -58,7 +70,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
     cp -r images $out/lib
     cp contrib/submit_image_build $out/bin/builds.sr.ht
-    cp ${buildWorker "${src}/worker"}/bin/worker $out/bin/builds.sr.ht-worker
+    ln -s ${buildsrht-api}/bin/api $out/bin/buildsrht-api
+    ln -s ${buildsrht-worker}/bin/worker $out/bin/buildsrht-worker
   '';
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "buildsrht" ];