diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f55cc9be..816bf2d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [![Build Status](https://github.com/jupyter-server/jupyverse/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jupyter-server/jupyverse/actions)
 [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
-[![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyter-server/jupyverse/HEAD?filepath=examples%2Fjupyverse.ipynb)
+[![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyter-server/jupyverse/HEAD
 
 # jupyverse
 
diff --git a/binder/environment.yml b/binder/environment.yml
index da378281..3372caf6 100644
--- a/binder/environment.yml
+++ b/binder/environment.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ channels:
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
   - python =3.9
-  - jupyterlab =3
-  - ipyurl
-  - jupyter-server-proxy >=1.5
+  - jupyter-server-proxy
   - pip
diff --git a/binder/jupyter_notebook_config.py b/binder/jupyter_notebook_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2a80d2e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/binder/jupyter_notebook_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+jupyverse_command = ' '.join([
+    'jupyverse',
+    '--no-open-browser',
+    '--authenticator.mode=noauth',
+    '--JupyterLab.collaborative',
+    '--JupyterLab.base_url={base_url}jupyverse/',
+    '--port={port}',
+] + ['>jupyverse.log 2>&1'])
+
+
+c.ServerProxy.servers = {
+    'jupyverse': {
+        'command': [
+            '/bin/bash', '-c', jupyverse_command
+        ],
+        'timeout': 60,
+        'absolute_url': False
+    },
+}
+
+c.NotebookApp.default_url = '/jupyverse'
+
+import logging
+c.NotebookApp.log_level = logging.DEBUG
diff --git a/binder/postBuild b/binder/postBuild
index 3cd50084..0771a553 100644
--- a/binder/postBuild
+++ b/binder/postBuild
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-python -m pip install git+https://github.com/jupyter-server/fps
-python -m pip install fps-uvicorn==0.0.2
+mkdir fps \
+    && wget -q https://github.com/davidbrochart/fps/archive/root_path.tar.gz -O - \
+        | tar xz -C fps --strip-components=1 \
+    && cd fps \
+    && python -m pip install . \
+    && python -m pip install plugins/uvicorn \
+    && cd .. \
+    && rm -rf fps
+
 python -m pip install .[jupyterlab] --no-deps
 python -m pip install plugins/jupyterlab
-python -m pip install plugins/retrolab
 python -m pip install plugins/contents
 python -m pip install plugins/kernels
 python -m pip install plugins/terminals
 python -m pip install plugins/nbconvert
 python -m pip install plugins/yjs
 python -m pip install plugins/auth
-
-jupyter serverextension enable --sys-prefix jupyter_server_proxy
diff --git a/binder/start b/binder/start
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..067b064f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/binder/start
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import sys
+import shutil
+import os
+
+argv = sys.argv[1:] + ['--config', 'binder/jupyter_notebook_config.py']
+print(argv)
+
+with open('startup_args.txt', 'w') as fid:
+    fid.write(str(argv))
+
+os.execv(shutil.which(argv[0]), argv)
diff --git a/examples/jupyverse.ipynb b/examples/jupyverse.ipynb
deleted file mode 100644
index 528d1d62..00000000
--- a/examples/jupyverse.ipynb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-{
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "4f2dbabd-a61c-4426-9f40-6a02cb511300",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "from ipyurl import Url"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "54f24cbd-19b0-4259-b26a-6c4ca2f0b57d",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "w = Url()\n",
-    "w"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "acbef777-b9f4-40d4-b6f3-bfbb9ad8144e",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "user_id = w.url.split(\"/user/\", 1)[1].strip(\"/\")\n",
-    "host = \"127.0.0.1\"\n",
-    "port = \"8005\""
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "f960a732-a0f3-4ca3-8eef-f0718c0c071e",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "Choose the frontend in the following cell:"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "939505c7-4861-4095-9393-6c89c13baaee",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "frontend = \"jupyterlab\"\n",
-    "#frontend = \"retrolab\"\n",
-    "\n",
-    "if frontend == \"retrolab\":\n",
-    "    jlab_enabled = \"false\"\n",
-    "    rlab_enabled = \"true\"\n",
-    "else:\n",
-    "    jlab_enabled = \"true\"\n",
-    "    rlab_enabled = \"false\""
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "ba2190b9-ccb7-4150-b223-f2145f223864",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "print(f\"Execute the following cell and then open this URL: {w.url.strip('/')}/proxy/{host}:{port}/\")"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "0c3150eb-c701-4ffa-974f-91b7ad2464c0",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "!jupyverse --no-open-browser --authenticator.mode=noauth --JupyterLab.collaborative=true --RetroLab.collaborative=true --JupyterLab.enabled={jlab_enabled} --RetroLab.enabled={rlab_enabled} --JupyterLab.base_url=/user/{user_id}/proxy/{host}:{port}/ --RetroLab.base_url=/user/{user_id}/proxy/{host}:{port}/ --port={port}"
-   ]
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.9.7"
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
-}