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by whawkinsiv
solo-founder-skills
Skillset optimized for indie makers, and bootstrapped solo founders building SaaS applications with AI tools (Lovable, Replit, Claude Code).
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- 21 skills (21 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 43 forks (43 forks)
- 2w ago last update (Last updated 2w ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill about-me — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skillscp -r "solo-founder-skills/skills/about-me" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the about-me skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.
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about-me
Use this skill when the founder wants AI-written content to sound like them: 'set up my voice,' 'make content sound like me,' 'create my founder profile,' 'about me,' or 'my background.' Creates ABOUT-ME.md in the project root with testable voice rules, opinions, and stories that content, outreach, and landing-page work can use. Not for customer profiles (use validate), for editing existing text…
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beautify
Use this skill to make an AI-built app look intentionally designed and behave well: 'make it look better,' 'it looks like a template,' 'something looks off,' 'make it look like Stripe or Linear,' 'review my design,' 'is the UI good enough to ship,' 'pick a look for my app,' or when building any new screen. Covers visual direction, hierarchy, spacing, color, type, the five UI states, error message…
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build
Use this skill when a solo founder is about to build or add to their product with Claude Code: 'build my MVP,' 'let's build this,' 'add this feature,' 'write a spec,' 'scope the first version,' 'Claude keeps breaking things,' or 'we're going in circles.' Checks that someone has paid first, scopes the first version from the steps the founder already does by hand, writes a short spec, and builds on…
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content
Use this skill when the founder wants to write and publish in their own voice to attract customers: 'content strategy,' 'build in public,' 'write a blog post,' 'founder essay,' 'LinkedIn post,' 'Twitter thread,' 'newsletter,' 'About page,' 'which platform should I post on,' or 'grow an audience.' Picks one platform, finds an angle worth publishing, and writes and edits the piece. Not for search-d…
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domain-name
Use this skill when the founder needs to name a product or company and find a domain: 'name my product,' 'what should I call it,' 'help me pick a domain,' 'is this a good name,' 'my domain is taken,' 'check if this name is available,' or a pasted list of candidate names. Scores names against ten rules, then checks domain availability with DNS and RDAP. Not for pointing DNS at a host once the name…
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email
Use this skill to set up a professional email address on the founder's domain and make sure email lands in inboxes: 'hello@ email,' 'branded email,' 'business email,' 'email forwarding,' 'send from my domain,' 'SPF,' 'DKIM,' 'DMARC,' 'my emails go to spam,' or 'set up email for my app.' Covers a free forwarding setup, sending as the branded address, the three DNS records, and app email from a sub…
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finances
Use this skill for the money math of a bootstrapped business: 'what's my quit number,' 'how many customers do I need,' 'how long is my runway,' 'should I raise money or bootstrap,' 'how much should I set aside for taxes,' 'do I need an accountant,' or 'are my numbers OK.' Works out the quit number, runway, and whether the business survives without outside money, sets up simple money habits, and s…
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first-customers
Use this skill to get paying customers one at a time and to plan a launch: 'how do I get my first customers,' 'find customers,' 'write cold outreach,' 'who should I contact,' 'follow up,' 'nobody replies,' 'plan my launch,' or 'Product Hunt.' Gets the first 10 paying customers by hand, starting with people the founder knows, then grows to 100, with a launch only after the first 10. Not for writin…
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focus
Use this skill when a solo founder wants a gut check on how to spend time or money: 'is this worth my time,' 'should I keep doing X,' 'I'm not getting results from X,' '80/20,' 'should I sign up for this,' 'should I buy this,' 'should I run ads,' 'should I hire someone,' 'should I raise money,' or 'which feature should I build next.' Returns one verdict and a plan for this week. Not for testing w…
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go-live
Use this skill for the go/no-go check before real customers use the app and pay: 'am I ready to launch,' 'is it ready to go live,' 'pre-launch checklist,' 'deploy my app,' 'set up my domain,' 'how do I know if my site goes down,' or 'set up backups.' Checks the core flow, payments, security basics, backups with a restore test, error tracking, uptime alerts, and rollback, then gives a verdict. Not…
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humanize
Use this skill to remove AI writing patterns from text so it reads like a person wrote it: 'this sounds like AI,' 'too robotic,' 'AI slop,' 'make this sound human,' 'sounds like ChatGPT,' or 'remove AI patterns.' Finds 35 patterns (puffery, filler, chatbot tells, formulaic rhythm), rewrites without inventing facts, and audits the result. Not for writing new content from scratch (use content or la…
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is-this-an-app
Use this skill when a founder has a new product idea and is about to build it, to decide what form it should take: a web app, mobile app, browser extension, automation, agent skill, API, or no build at all. Also use for 'is this an app,' 'should this be a SaaS,' 'web app or Chrome extension,' 'could this just be a Zapier or a GPT,' or 'I want to build an app that...' Scores the idea on a 14-dimen…
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journey
Use this skill when a solo founder does not know where to start or what to do next: 'where do I start,' 'what should I do first,' 'what order do I do things in,' 'what should I work on now,' 'I have an idea, now what,' or 'I don't have an idea yet.' Finds the founder's stage from paying customers, not from code, and names the one next skill to use. Not for judging whether a specific activity or p…
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landing-page
Use this skill to write or fix a page that sells: 'build my landing page,' 'homepage copy,' 'hero section,' 'sales page,' 'pre-sell page,' 'write a headline,' 'button text,' or 'people visit but don't sign up or buy.' Writes a page with one offer, one price, and one action (pay, pre-order, or book a call), using the customer's words and only real proof, then diagnoses where visitors drop off. Not…
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legal
Use this skill for the legal basics of a solo software business: 'LLC or C-Corp,' 'form a company,' 'terms of service,' 'privacy policy,' 'cookie consent,' 'GDPR,' 'co-founder agreement,' 'contractor agreement,' or 'do I need a lawyer.' Picks an entity, drafts plain-English terms and a privacy policy from the product's real facts, adds data export and deletion, and says what can wait. Drafts only…
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payments
Use this skill to take money: 'set up Stripe,' 'add subscriptions,' 'payment link,' 'billing,' 'customer portal,' 'webhooks,' 'failed payments,' 'sales tax or VAT,' or 'refunds.' Starts with a payment link or invoice for the first customers, then sets up Stripe Checkout, the customer portal, and webhooks that grant access, with test and go-live checklists. Not for deciding what to charge (use pri…
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pricing
Use this skill to decide what to charge: 'how much should I charge,' 'what should I charge my first customers,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium or free trial,' 'should I raise my prices,' or 'pricing page.' Before 10 paying customers it sets one simple price and works out how many customers the founder needs. After 10 it designs tiers from how real customers differ. Not for setting up Stripe or billin…
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retention
Use this skill to keep the customers the founder already has: 'customers are leaving,' 'reduce churn,' 'onboarding,' 'welcome emails,' 'people sign up but don't use it,' 'collect feedback,' 'feature requests,' 'customer support,' 'help docs,' or 'someone cancelled.' Gets new customers to their first result, sets up a weekly check-in, simple support, a feedback loop, and an honest cancellation flo…
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secure
Use this skill to find and fix the security holes that AI-built apps most often ship with: 'is my app secure,' 'security check,' 'check my app for security holes,' 'can users see each other's data,' 'did I leak my API keys,' or 'I'm worried about hackers.' Claude runs the audit on the codebase: exposed keys, data isolation between users, auth on every route, webhook signatures, rate and spend lim…
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seo
Use this skill to audit a site's code for search and AI-answer visibility and fix what matters: 'audit my SEO,' 'how do I rank,' 'why don't I show up on Google,' 'SEO review,' 'optimize for AI answers,' 'what pages should I create for SEO,' or 'meta tags and sitemap.' Claude scans the codebase, grades it, writes a prioritized plan with file paths, and offers to make the fixes. Not for writing blo…
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validate
Use this skill to test whether an idea is worth pursuing before building it, or to find an idea in the first place: 'is this a good idea,' 'should I build this,' 'pressure test my idea,' 'how do I know anyone wants this,' 'I don't have an idea yet,' 'do it by hand first,' 'concierge MVP,' 'go/no-go,' or 'how big is this market.' Designs the cheapest test, scores the evidence with a script, and re…
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