Two weeks in: 14 skills, 63 users, and the one everyone's using
Two weeks since launch. Some numbers:
- 63 people signed up
- 14 skills published
- 55 downloads
- 19 upvotes
- 0 outages
Growth looks roughly linear. Around 3 new users a day, not a single day without at least one signup. That's a healthier pace than I expected for something I haven't promoted anywhere yet.
What's stalled: new contributions. Three people pushed skills in the first week, then publishing went quiet. I have theories, mostly around the review step feeling heavier than it needs to (I'm the bottleneck right now). That's the next thing I'll fix.
The skill people keep pulling
The most-used skill on SkillCraft right now is the Market Positioning Finder, one of the seed skills from launch day. It's been at the top of the leaderboard since early on and hasn't budged.
What it actually does: hands Claude a four-phase positioning interview to run with you. Target market, unique attributes, target segment, positioning statement. You load the skill, answer the questions, and Claude turns your messy notes into a tight positioning paragraph you can drop into a landing page or a pitch deck.
People have been using it for small startups, consultancies, and solo products. A few have come back and run it a second time for a different offering. That's the signal I was hoping for. People aren't downloading to poke at it; they're using it on real work.
A few honest notes
For balance, the skills that haven't moved are mostly the earliest ones I wrote to seed the marketplace. They're fine, but "fine" doesn't climb. Which is the system working as intended.
The only Legendary skill on the site right now is that positioning one. Everything else is sitting at Common or Rare while the library finds its shape.
What's next
Short list, in order:
- This curated What's New page you're reading, so casual visitors have a reason to come back
- A learn hub with longer explainers for people new to the Skills spec
- Better submission flow — cut the review friction
- Drop the auth gate on the marketplace so crawlers (and humans) can see skills without signing in
If you've been sitting on a Claude Code skill that helped you do one real marketing task, publish it. The best ones so far have been the specific ones, not the ambitious ones.
— Risu