first-50-users

first-50-users is a skill for Claude Code from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder. It costs 51 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding the first 50 real users for a newly launched product, especially among developers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify those channels, collect interested contacts, provide a next step such as docs or a free tier, and help new users reach value quickly.
Why use it?
It helps replace random posting and premature advertising with outreach in the communities and discovery channels the intended users already use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gtm-cofounder plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify those channels, collect interested contacts, provide a next step such as docs or a free tier, and help new users reach value quickly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidevgtm/gtm-cofounder/09-first-50-users
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill 09-first-50-users
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-cofounder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00942
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash aa39f281010c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-50-users scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/09-first-50-users/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your first 50 users

You don't get your first 50 users by posting more. You get them by going where your users already discover tools, and, at the start, by doing things that don't scale.

Use this when: you launched to silence, you're spraying every channel hoping one works, or you're about to buy ads to fix a problem ads can't fix.

The core idea

Every developer audience has an existing technology-discovery loop: the specific places they already go to find new tools. Your job isn't to invent demand; it's to position yourself inside that loop. And your first cohort is hand-to-hand: the TAB members from talk-to-users are your first users.

Framework: the top of the DREAM funnel (Frankl)

  • Discovery: be where developers look: the communities, newsletters, influencers, and searches your ICP already uses. Metric: unique humans, not pageviews.
  • Research: give the interested dev a next step before they forget you: newsletter, Discord, free tier, docs. Developers can sit in Research for months, so sustain the relationship.

Then Evaluation decides everything (see know-if-its-working): can a new dev get value over a weekend, from docs and Stack Overflow, with no support call? If not, more traffic just fills a leaky bucket.

Framework: channels by stage (Czakon)

Pre-PMF (you are here for the first 50): unscalable, direct, high-touch.

  • The people who posted about the problem (HN/Reddit/GitHub issues/X), DM them, personally.
  • Your TAB → convert to design partners / first users.
  • Founder posting genuinely useful things where the ICP hangs out (not "we launched!").
  • One deep launch (see launch-it), not ten shallow ones.

Post-PMF (later): content/SEO, community, dev-influencer partnerships, then paid to amplify what already converts, never to discover it. And once the first 50 are in and retention holds, the hand-to-hand work graduates: build the self-reinforcing engine in growth-loops.

How to pick the channel (don't do all of them)

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A aa39f281010c

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first-50-users is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder (274 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 942 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 2026-08-30.

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