diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5906cb2..df1379f 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ifeq (,$(wildcard $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin/templ))
 endif
 	TEMPL_EXPERIMENT=rawgo $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin/templ generate
 
-run:
+run: | ${TARGET}
 	bin/${TARGET} -listen 127.0.0.1:18123 -database-path . -captcha-expiry 10m \
 		-guestbook-page-size 10