skills README

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The Minimalist Entrepreneur — Claude Code Skills

Claude Code skills based on The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia.

Installation

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur

That's it — Claude Code will fetch the repo and register all 10 skills automatically.

Alternative: install from a local clone 
git clone https://github.com/slavingia/skills.git ~/.claude/plugins/skills

Then in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ~/.claude/plugins/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur

Skills

Skill Command When to use
Find Community /find-community Looking for a business idea, trying to find your community
Validate Idea /validate-idea Testing if a business idea is worth pursuing
MVP /mvp Ready to build your first product, struggling with scope
Processize /processize Have a product idea, want to deliver value by hand before writing code
First Customers /first-customers Have a product, need to find your first 100 customers
Pricing /pricing Setting prices, considering price changes
Marketing Plan /marketing-plan Have product-market fit, ready to scale with content
Grow Sustainably /grow-sustainably Making decisions about spending, hiring, or scaling
Company Values /company-values Defining culture, preparing to hire
Minimalist Review /minimalist-review Gut-checking any business decision

The Minimalist Entrepreneur Journey

The skills follow the book's progression:

  1. Community — Start by finding your people
  2. Validate — Make sure the problem is worth solving
  3. Build — Ship a manual process, then productize it
  4. Processize — Turn your product idea into a manual process you can deliver today
  5. Sell — Get to 100 customers one by one
  6. Price — Charge something from day one
  7. Market — Build an audience through content
  8. Grow — Stay profitable, grow sustainably
  9. Culture — Build the house you want to live in
  10. Review — Apply minimalist principles to every decision

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What is this?A pack of 10 Claude Code skills built around the advice in 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' by Sahil Lavingia, giving slash commands for each stage of starting and running a small business.
Is this a standalone app, or does it plug into Claude Code?It's not a standalone app — it's a set of skills that register inside Claude Code and are triggered with slash commands like /mvp or /pricing.
How do I install these skills?Point Claude Code at this repo and it will fetch it and register all 10 skills automatically; you can also install from a local clone instead.
Do I need anything besides Claude Code to use this?No extra dependencies, packages or API keys are mentioned — just Claude Code itself.
Can I use these skills outside Claude Code?No — they are built specifically as Claude Code skills and are only described as working within that tool.
Who is this aimed at?Founders and aspiring entrepreneurs working through the stages of starting a business, from finding a community to pricing and scaling it.
What is 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur'?It's a book by Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad founder) about building profitable businesses without over-investing, and this repo turns its ideas into usable Claude Code commands.
What skills come included?Ten skills covering the whole journey: Find Community, Validate Idea, MVP, Processize, First Customers, Pricing, Marketing Plan, Grow Sustainably, Company Values, and Minimalist Review.
How are the skills organized?They map 1:1 onto the book's 10-step journey — Community, Validate, Build, Processize, Sell, Price, Market, Grow, Culture, Review — so you can jump to whichever stage you're at.
Which skill should I use to sanity-check a decision?Use /minimalist-review — it's described as a gut-check for any business decision against minimalist principles.
What are similar projects?claude-skills-founder, Humanizer-zh, explainer, marketing-agi, replica-skill, no-ai-slop, opc-methodology, evondevKit
Which topics is it in?entrepreneurs, pricing, startups, claude-code-skills, claude-code-skill, content-creation, agent-skill, claude-skills, book, skill, guide, anthropic
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slavingia
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CommitApr 14
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