growth-engine

growth-engine is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ace3000chao/book2startup. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A growth-planning framework that helps a startup identify whether growth mainly comes from returning customers, user referrals, or paid acquisition. It focuses on matching the growth approach to measurable customer behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between retention, referrals, advertising, and other acquisition approaches, and to decide which growth metrics to improve.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from spending effort on the wrong way to attract customers or mistaking activity for sustainable growth.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose between retention, referrals, advertising, and other acquisition approaches, and to decide which growth metrics to improve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/006-growth-engine
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add ace3000chao/book2startup --skill 006-growth-engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ace3000chao/book2startup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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精益创业skills/skills/006-growth-engine/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

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Skill: 增长引擎选择与优化

Metadata

  • ID: leanstartup-006
  • 类型: framework
  • 来源: 《精益创业》第十章
  • 验证状态: ✅ 三重验证通过(V1: 10章完整论证, V2: 规模化核心决策, V3: 独特框架)

R — Reading(原文引用)

"可持续的增长来自三种增长引擎中的一种:黏着式增长引擎、病毒式增长引擎和付费式增长引擎。"

"增长引擎决定产品/市场契合。当你的产品满足了顾客的真正需求时,增长引擎就会启动。"

I — Interpretation(方法论骨架)

增长引擎是创业的"飞轮"——一旦识别并优化它,增长会自我加速

三种引擎的本质:

引擎 核心问题 关键指标 典型案例
黏着式 顾客会主动回来吗? 留存率、复购率 SaaS订阅、电商复购
病毒式 顾客会主动传播吗? 病毒系数、传播率 社交网络、协作工具
付费式 我们能用钱买到顾客吗? CAC、LTV、客户终身价值 电商、游戏内购

核心洞察:大多数创业者在还没搞清楚自己的引擎是哪一种之前,就拼命优化增长。这就像"不知道引擎在哪里的赛车手",用了很多力气但车没动。

A1 — Past Application(书中案例)

Facebook的病毒式增长:Facebook第一个版本非常简单(投票功能),但设计了"邀请朋友"的机制。用户的每次互动都会触发推荐朋友的提示,导致6年内超过谷歌的流量。关键不是"产品有多好",而是"增长机制是否被嵌入产品体验"。

Wealthfront的价值获取教训:他们以为自己的增长引擎是"病毒式"(玩家推荐玩家),但实际上数据揭示了残酷真相——转化率几乎为零。最终通过转型到"付费式增长"(直接获取专业理财经理)才实现增长。

A2 — Future Trigger(何时调用)

当你听到以下问题时,就应该调用这个Skill:

  • "我们的用户数在涨,但不知道是什么原因带来的增长"
  • "获客成本越来越高,不知道还能撑多久"
  • "产品口碑不错,但增长很慢,怎么加速?"
  • "我们是否应该做广告投放/口碑营销/渠道合作?"
  • "很多用户注册了但不活跃,怎么让更多人回来?"

E — Execution(可执行步骤)

步骤1:识别你的增长引擎

回答这个问题:你的增长主要来自哪里?

如果是"顾客用过之后主动回来或主动告诉朋友" → 黏着式/病毒式引擎 如果是"我们花钱买流量/做活动拉来的" → 付费式引擎 如果不清楚 → 很可能目前没有真正的增长引擎

步骤2:测量引擎核心指标

黏着式引擎

  • 每周/每月留存率:这一周的活跃用户中,有多少下周还回来?
  • 目标:40%以上的月留存是健康的黏着式产品

病毒式引擎

  • 病毒系数:每个用户平均带来多少新用户?(>1才算病毒式)
  • 目标:系数>1,否则增长不可持续

付费式引擎

  • LTV/CAC比值:每个顾客终身价值是获客成本的多少倍?
  • 目标:LTV > 3× CAC才可持续

步骤3:优化引擎,而非渠道

错误做法:"我们应该在抖音/小红书/微信都投广告吗?" 正确做法:"我们的病毒系数只有0.3,问题出在分享机制还是产品体验?"

先让引擎转起来,再谈规模化。

步骤4:当引擎停滞时的转型决策

如果某个引擎已经达到极限(优化后没有明显提升),需要考虑增长引擎转型

  • 从黏着式转型为付费式(如:口碑无法带来足够增长,开始付费推广)
  • 从付费式转型为病毒式(如:发现用户推荐的成本效益更高)

B — Boundary(何时不适用)

不适用场景 原因
产品/市场契合尚未达到 没有达到契合之前,优化增长引擎是浪费资源
还在验证MVP阶段 这个阶段的核心是学习,不是增长
B2B大型销售周期 增长引擎概念主要适用于ToC/订阅业务

作者盲点提醒:很多创业者把"获客"当成增长,但忽视了在产品未达到PMF(产品/市场契合)之前的增长只会让浪费放大——你快速获得的大量顾客如果留不住,他们的流失会摧毁口碑。先有留存,后有增长

关联Skills

  • 创新核算三步骤 — 追踪增长引擎的指标表现
  • 转型决策树 — 当引擎停滞时决定是否转型
  • 对比测试 — 优化引擎的核心实验工具

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growth-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository ace3000chao/book2startup (80 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,415 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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