diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ee63043e75..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "budibase-core"]
-	path = packages/core
-	url = git@github.com:Budibase/budibase-core.git
diff --git a/packages/core b/packages/core
deleted file mode 160000
index 5f170e8c9f..0000000000
--- a/packages/core
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 5f170e8c9fa768896a67fda6cc23832fff94d13f