diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8eef8de6..311ba2f2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 FROM python:3.9-slim
 
 # Set pip to have cleaner logs and no saved cache
+# Set poetry to not make virtualenvs
+# set pipx to use the same folder that pip puts scripts in
 ENV PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=false \
-    POETRY_VIRTUALENVS_CREATE=false
+    POETRY_VIRTUALENVS_IN_PROJECT=true \
+    POETRY_INSTALLER_PARALLEL=false \
+    PIPX_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin
 
-# Install poetry
-RUN pip install -U poetry
+# install poetry
+# this is pinned because sometimes versions have bugs, and this version is reliable enough to use
+RUN pip install poetry==1.1.7
 
 # See https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3336
 RUN poetry config experimental.new-installer false
@@ -13,10 +18,19 @@ RUN poetry config experimental.new-installer false
 # Create the working directory
 WORKDIR /modmail
 
+# copy the required files to install the dependencies.
+COPY ./pyproject.toml .
+COPY ./poetry.lock .
+
+
+# Install project dependencies
+RUN poetry install --no-dev --no-root
+
 # Copy the source code in last to optimize rebuilding the image
 COPY . .
 
-# Install project dependencies
+# install the package itself.
+# this is required for importlib.metadata to work
 RUN poetry install --no-dev
 
-CMD ["python", "-m", "modmail"]
+CMD ["poetry","run","python", "-m", "modmail"]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 66e844ae..eee4e5ed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -76,21 +76,9 @@ line-length = 110
 target-version = ['py38']
 include = '\.pyi?$'
 
-[tool.taskipy.tasks.export]
-cmd = """
-echo 'Exporting installed packages to requirements.txt.\n\
-This task automatically relocks the lock file using "poetry lock --no-update"' && \
-poetry lock --no-update && \
-echo '# Do not manually edit.\n# Generate with "poetry run task export"\n' > requirements.txt && \
-echo "Exporting..." && \
-poetry export --without-hashes >> requirements.txt && \
-echo "Done exporting."
-"""
-help = "Export installed packages in requirements.txt format"
-
 [tool.taskipy.tasks]
 # Documentation
-docs = { cmd = "mkdocs serve", help = "Run the docs on a local automatically reloading server"}
+docs = { cmd = "mkdocs serve", help = "Run the docs on a local automatically reloading server" }
 
 # Bot
 start = { cmd = "python -m modmail", help = "Run bot" }
@@ -103,7 +91,7 @@ lint = { cmd = "pre-commit run --all-files", help = "Checks all files for CI err
 
 # Testing
 codecov-validate = { cmd = "curl --data-binary @.codecov.yml https://codecov.io/validate", help = "Validate `.codecov.yml` with their api." }
-cov-server = { cmd = "coverage html", help = "Start an http.server for viewing coverage data."}
+cov-server = { cmd = "coverage html", help = "Start an http.server for viewing coverage data." }
 post-cov-server = "python -m http.server 8012 --bind 127.0.0.1 --directory htmlcov"
 report = { cmd = "coverage report", help = "Show coverage report from previously run tests." }
 test = { cmd = "pytest -n auto --dist loadfile", help = "Runs tests and save results to a coverage report" }
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ed382e0..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Do not manually edit.
-# Generate with "poetry run task export"
-
-aiodns==3.0.0; python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-aiohttp==3.7.4.post0; python_version >= "3.6"
-arrow==1.1.1; python_version >= "3.6"
-async-timeout==3.0.1; python_full_version >= "3.5.3" and python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-attrs==21.2.0; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.5.0" and python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-brotlipy==0.7.0; python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-cchardet==2.1.7; python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-cffi==1.14.6; python_version >= "3.6"
-chardet==4.0.0; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.5.0" and python_version >= "3.6" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-colorama==0.4.4; (python_version >= "2.7" and python_full_version < "3.0.0") or (python_full_version >= "3.5.0")
-coloredlogs==15.0.1; (python_version >= "2.7" and python_full_version < "3.0.0") or (python_full_version >= "3.5.0")
-discord.py @ https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/archive/master.zip ; python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-humanfriendly==9.2; python_version >= "2.7" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.5.0"
-idna==3.2; python_version >= "3.6"
-multidict==5.1.0; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0" or python_version >= "3.6"
-pycares==4.0.0; python_version >= "3.6"
-pycparser==2.20; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.4.0"
-pydantic==1.8.2; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
-pyreadline==2.1; python_version >= "2.7" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" and sys_platform == "win32" or python_full_version >= "3.5.0" and sys_platform == "win32"
-python-dateutil==2.8.2; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.3.0" and python_version >= "3.6"
-python-dotenv==0.19.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.5"
-six==1.16.0; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.3.0" and python_version >= "3.6"
-toml==0.10.2; (python_version >= "2.6" and python_full_version < "3.0.0") or (python_full_version >= "3.3.0")
-typing-extensions==3.10.0.0; python_version >= "3.6" or python_full_version >= "3.6.1" or python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0"
-yarl==1.6.3; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.8.0" or python_version >= "3.6"