Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill indie-hackergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/indie-hacker)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/indie-hacker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/indie-hacker/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/indie-hacker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/indie-hacker.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00102 | $0.02321 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01161 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00464 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00232 |
Grade A, and why
indie-hacker-strategy 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 9d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- indie-hacker-strategy — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Strategies: Indie Hacker
Guides marketing and growth strategy for indie hackers (bootstrapped founders, solo developers)—autonomous, small-team or solo, no external funding. Covers mindset, first users, Build in Public, growth channels, and when to use which skills. For cold start execution (launch timeline, Product Hunt, directory submission), see cold-start-strategy. For forum tactics (Indie Hackers, HN, Reddit post structure), see community-forum. Full guide (cases, resources) → Alignify – Indie Hacker Complete Guide.
When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.
Definition
Indie Hacker = Bootstrapped founder who builds products autonomously, typically 1–3 people, no external funding. Focus: sustainability, profitability, fast iteration—not VC-scale growth.
| Trait | Indie Hacker | VC-backed |
|---|---|---|
| Funding | Bootstrapping; product revenue | External investment |
| Growth | Sustainable; Ramen profitability first | Scale at all costs |
| Control | Full autonomy | Investor reporting |
| Timeline | Long game; niche focus | Fast expansion |
Core Concepts
| Concept | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Bootstrapping | Self-funded; use product revenue to grow; no equity dilution |
| MVP | Minimum viable product; ship fast, validate, iterate |
| Build in Public | Share progress, metrics, failures openly; attracts early adopters |
| Scratch your own itch | Solve your own problem first; others likely have it too |
Pieter Levels Playbook
| Tactic | Guideline |
|---|---|
| Ship fast, fix later | Launch ugly but functional MVPs; Nomad List started as Google Sheet + Stripe; Photo AI made $150K first week despite initial flaws |
| Monetize from day one | Add payment button at launch; validate willingness to pay, not just usage |
| Automate everything | Scripts, APIs, no-code; run without employees |
| Build in public | Share metrics openly; 600K+ followers; "Day 1: building X. Day 3: first customer" attracts early adopters |
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 165 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A b6c3ba3df6db
indie-hacker-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (967 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,321 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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