diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ed99f9be..52adfe39 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -20,3 +20,6 @@ prelude.output.md
 
 # Scratch files
 *.u
+
+# Developers can customize their own local development setup
+/transcripts/fixtures/custom_projects.txt
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4d2256b2..6e395e1f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ reset_fixtures:
 	  sleep 1; \
 	done;
 	@echo "Booting up share";
-	@( . ./local.env \
-		$(exe) 2>&1 & \
+	@( . ./local.env ; \
+		$(exe) & \
 		SERVER_PID=$$!; \
 	trap "kill $$SERVER_PID 2>/dev/null || true" EXIT INT TERM; \
 	echo "Loading fixtures"; \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e1b1a44..3dd07fb6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ A [flake.nix](flake.nix) file is provided in this repo. It currently doesn't use
 ## Running Locally
 
 The first time you run locally, start with `make reset_fixtures`, then on subsequent runs just use `make serve`.
+`make reset_fixtures` will set up some basic test data in your local database, and will copy all projects from `./transcripts/fixtures/projects.txt` and `./transcripts/fixtures/custom_projects.txt` from Share into your local database.
 
 Data changes in Postgres using `make serve` are persistent locally.
 You can reset the database to a known state with `make reset_fixtures`.
diff --git a/transcripts/fixtures/load-from-share.sh b/transcripts/fixtures/load-from-share.sh
index a8124b2c..fd0b9c76 100755
--- a/transcripts/fixtures/load-from-share.sh
+++ b/transcripts/fixtures/load-from-share.sh
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 set -e
 set -u
 
-echo "This is not yet implemented"
-exit 1
-
 . "${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/transcript_functions.sh"
 
 cache_dir="$HOME/.cache/share-api"
@@ -16,44 +13,49 @@ if [ ! -d "$cache_dir" ]; then
   mkdir -p "$cache_dir"
 fi
 
-typeset -A projects
-projects=(
-    base '@unison/base'
-)
-
-for project_name project_ref in "${(@kv)projects}"; do
-    echo "Downloading sync file for $project_ref"
-    output_file="$(mktemp)"
-    curl -X GET --location "https://api.unison-lang.org/ucm/v1/projects/project?name=${project_ref}" \
-    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-    >"$output_file"
-
-    echo "Response for project $project_ref:"
-    cat "$output_file"
-
-    latest_release="$(jq -r '.payload."latest-release"' <"$output_file")"
-    projectId="$(jq -r '.payload."project-id"' <"$output_file")"
-    branch_ref="releases/${latest_release}"
-    project_branch_ref="${project_ref}/${branch_ref}"
-
-    curl -X GET --location "https://api.unison-lang.org/ucm/v1/projects/project-branch?projectId=${projectId}&branchName=releases/${latest_release}" \
-    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-    >"$output_file"
-    branch_head="$(jq -r '.payload."branch-head"' <"$output_file")"
-
-    echo "Response for project branch $project_branch_ref:"
-    cat "$output_file"
-
-    sync_file="$cache_dir/${project_branch_ref}"
-    
-    if [ -f "$sync_file" ]; then
-        echo "Sync file for $project_branch_ref already exists, skipping download."
-        continue
-      else
-        mkdir -p "$(dirname "$sync_file")"
-        echo "Downloading sync file for $project_branch_ref into $sync_file"
-        curl -X POST --location 'https://api.unison-lang.org/ucm/v2/sync/entities/download' \
-        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-        --data-raw "{\"branchRef\": \"${project_branch_ref}\", \"causalHash\": \"${branch_head}\", \"knownHashes\":[]}" >"$cache_dir/${project_branch_ref}"
-    fi
-done
+main_project_list="${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/fixtures/projects.txt"
+custom_project_list="${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/fixtures/custom_projects.txt"
+# create the custom projects file if it doesn't exist
+if [ ! -f "$custom_project_list" ]; then
+  touch "$custom_project_list"
+fi
+
+auth_transcript="$(mktemp).md"
+pull_transcript="$(mktemp).md"
+push_transcript="$(mktemp).md"
+
+cat << EOF >"$auth_transcript"
+\`\`\`ucm
+scratch/main> auth.login
+\`\`\`
+EOF
+
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+  read -r project_source project_dest <<< "$line"
+# Annoyingly clone will fail if it's already been cloned, but succeed otherwise, so we just add a bad command to
+# force the block to always fail so we can use the :error directive.
+cat << EOF
+\`\`\`ucm:error
+scratch/main> clone ${project_source}
+scratch/main> force-failure
+\`\`\`
+
+EOF
+done < <(cat "$main_project_list" "$custom_project_list") >"$pull_transcript"
+
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+  read -r project_source project_dest <<< "$line"
+cat << EOF
+\`\`\`ucm
+${project_source}> push ${project_dest}
+\`\`\`
+
+EOF
+done < <(cat "$main_project_list" "$custom_project_list")  >"$push_transcript"
+
+echo "📫 Downloading projects from Share"
+UNISON_SHARE_HOST="https://api.unison-lang.org" ucm -C "${cache_dir}/code-cache" transcript.in-place "$pull_transcript"
+echo "🔑 Authenticating with local server..."
+UNISON_SHARE_HOST="http://localhost:5424" ucm -c "${cache_dir}/code-cache" transcript.in-place "$auth_transcript"
+echo "📦 Pushing projects to local server..."
+UNISON_SHARE_HOST="http://localhost:5424" ucm -c "${cache_dir}/code-cache" transcript.in-place "$push_transcript"
diff --git a/transcripts/fixtures/projects.txt b/transcripts/fixtures/projects.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ce9a417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/transcripts/fixtures/projects.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+@unison/base/releases/4.8.0 @test/base/main
diff --git a/transcripts/fixtures/run.zsh b/transcripts/fixtures/run.zsh
index e6b331e4..38d257ed 100755
--- a/transcripts/fixtures/run.zsh
+++ b/transcripts/fixtures/run.zsh
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ source "${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/transcript_functions.sh"
 # Set up database so helper scripts know it's a local db
 pg_file "${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/sql/configure_local_database.sql"
 pg_init_fixtures
+
+source "${SHARE_PROJECT_ROOT}/transcripts/fixtures/load-from-share.sh"