founders skills

47 tagged founders, measured the same way as everything else here.

Browse within: indie-hackers 16fundraising 12cold-email 10startup 10entrepreneurship 7idea-validation 7ai-skills 6behavioral-science 6growth 6openai-codex 6

solo-failures

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yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Understand why startups fail — the most common failure modes, anti-patterns, and how to avoid them, backed by data from 101 founder interviews.

23 4mo ago A 34 tokens

founder-profile

04

schub-tech/llm-ideation-wiki

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Capture the founder's ambition, end-game, financial target, timeframe, investment willingness, and risk tolerance, then reality-check the answers against themselves. Writes to wiki/founder in Notion. Use after onboarding, at wiki start, before creating the first idea, or when the user asks to frame goals, set…

11 1mo ago A 82 tokens original MIT

research-deep

05

schub-tech/llm-ideation-wiki

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Execute web research on specific questions and write findings to Notion raw/ / or raw/shared/ as new raw source pages. Use after /find-gaps produces a confirmed plan, or when the user gives a direct research question (e.g. "research X" / "find me data on Y" / "look up Z").

11 1mo ago A 79 tokens original MIT

wiki-lint

06

schub-tech/llm-ideation-wiki

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Run semantic wiki lint beyond structural link checks. Use when the user asks to audit, lint, health-check, find stale claims, find unsupported claims, check provenance, or identify contradictions in the wiki.

11 1mo ago A 44 tokens original MIT

build-your-nock

07

kothari-nikunj/nock

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Build YOUR OWN Nock — a reusable tool that pressure-tests any founder's pitch deck against the questions you, the investor, actually ask. Turns your recorded Granola pitch meetings into a distilled question-bank + principles, then applies it to decks. Use when an investor/VC wants to capture how they question…

10 4d ago A 131 tokens original MIT

nock

08

kothari-nikunj/nock

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Nock — pressure-test a startup pitch deck against the real questions and bar that Nikunj Kothari applies to founders, before you take the shot. Use when someone wants to prep for a VC pitch, "see what a VC would ask," find the holes in their deck, or rehearse tough diligence questions. Also covers raise mechanics …

10 4d ago A 160 tokens original MIT

cold-call

09

oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Prepare a founder for a live cold or first call with an investor — a 30-second opener, the core narrative beats, objection handling, a voicemail script, and a clear close/ask. Use when a founder says "I have a call with an investor", "help me prep a cold call", "what do I say on the phone", "write a voicemail for a…

4 1mo ago A 106 tokens original MIT

investor-targeting

10

oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Build a tiered, stage- and sector-fit list of investors (VCs, angels, micro-funds, accelerators) for a founder's raise, using free public sources and live web search. Use when a founder asks "who should I raise from", "find investors for my startup", "which funds invest in at ", or wants to build or qualify a…

4 1mo ago A 106 tokens original MIT

warm-path-finder

11

oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Find the right human at an investor (the partner / principal / senior investment manager who owns your deal) AND map the warm-connection paths to reach them. Use when a founder says "who at should I talk to", "how do I get a warm intro to ", "find a connection to ", "who can introduce me", or is stuck going from a…

4 1mo ago A 130 tokens original MIT

investor-update

12

Pitchdrive/investor-update-skill

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Draft a monthly or quarterly investor update for your startup — structured like the updates VCs actually enjoy reading. Use when the founder asks to write, prepare, or send an investor update. Pulls KPIs from connected tools when available, asks for numbers when not, tracks commitments between updates, and renders a…

4 1mo ago A 76 tokens original MIT

lucasheriques/shipmate

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Run post-launch product discovery using Continuous Discovery Habits (Teresa Torres) - opportunity solution trees, weekly interview cadence, assumption-level testing. Use when deciding what to build next for a live product, structuring or prioritizing a backlog of user needs, setting a product outcome or North-Star…

4 1mo ago A 90 tokens original MIT

guide-writing

14

lucasheriques/shipmate

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Structure long-form educational content using Write Useful Books (Rob Fitzpatrick) - scope a tight promise, design for recommendability (DEEP), beta-read, seed word of mouth. Use when planning or structuring an ebook, guide, course companion, documentation-as-product, tutorial series, or flagship newsletter series…

4 1mo ago A 87 tokens original MIT

shipmate

15

lucasheriques/shipmate

Skill Claude CodeCodex

The full-lifecycle framework for building products people pay for - routes any product/business situation to the right stage and skill, and maintains persistent venture memory across sessions. Use when someone has a new product or business idea and asks where to start, when revenue or growth is stuck and the cause is…

4 1mo ago A 140 tokens original MIT

gorilla-mcp

16

opusforge/gorilla-mcp

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when the user wants to find their first real users. Runs a Gorilla-powered lead hunt end-to-end. Sharpens the ICP, scans social demand, picks HIGH-intent leads, and returns a ready-to-send outreach kit the founder can act on in the next hour.

3 1mo ago A 60 tokens original MIT

gorilla-lead-finder

17

opusforge/gorilla-mcp

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Find your first SaaS users by searching Reddit, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Bluesky for people already describing the problem your product solves. Ranks every result by buying intent and drafts platform-tuned outreach. Backed by the Gorilla API at https://usegorilla.app.

3 1mo ago A 66 tokens original MIT

landing-page-review

18

lelephi/marketing-agent-skills-for-founders

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Review a company website or landing page the way a head of design, a CMO, and the actual customer would. Scores it out of 50, ranks the gaps by revenue damage, and rewrites the hero. Use whenever someone shares a homepage, landing page, marketing site, or URL, or screenshots, or pasted hero copy, and wants feedback, a…

2 19d ago A 167 tokens original MIT

pitch-deck-review

19

lelephi/marketing-agent-skills-for-founders

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Review a pre-seed or seed pitch deck the way a VC partner would. Finds the gaps, ranks them by how much damage they do, and rewrites the worst slides. Use whenever someone shares a pitch deck, fundraising deck, investor deck, seed deck, or pre-seed deck as a PDF, PPTX, images, or a link and wants feedback, a teardown…

2 19d ago A 160 tokens original MIT

pitch-one-liner

20

lelephi/marketing-agent-skills-for-founders

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Write, fix, or stress-test the one sentence that explains what a company does, then push that sentence into the hero, the deck, the bio, and the cold email. Use whenever someone shares a landing page URL, pitch deck, website copy, product description, accelerator application, or company blurb and wants to know what it…

2 19d ago A 176 tokens original MIT

ai-teammate-coach

21

aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when the user mentions AI workflows, automation, agents, AI productivity, "how do I use AI beyond ChatGPT," delegating to AI, replacing manual processes, building AI pipelines, prompt engineering, content automation, or scaling a small team with AI. Guides through audit, workflow design, and prompt iteration using…

2 5mo ago A 84 tokens original MIT

aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when the user mentions growth, acquisition, retention, churn, conversion, paid marketing, SEO, virality, network effects, product-market fit, "we're not growing," user acquisition cost, LTV, growth loops, or optimizing the wrong metric. Diagnoses which of 4 sustainable acquisition loops fits the product using…

2 5mo ago A 85 tokens original MIT

positioning-autopsy

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aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when the user mentions positioning, go-to-market, competitive differentiation, market category, sales narrative, pitch deck, fundraising story, "everything feels hard," losing deals to no decision, wrong competitor comparisons, or struggling to explain what their product does. Coaches through April Dunford's…

2 5mo ago A 91 tokens original MIT