[009]Worth studyingAgent ecosystem · Claude Code / CodexSubscription + lifetime one-time purchaseData as of 2026-11-02
A paid Skill library for people with developer traffic at $9.99/month, sized around a single launch wave
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Only if you already have traffic and can ride the wave. Treat it as a launch, not a subscription business.Expect a peak of a few thousand to ten thousand dollars a month, falling to 10–30% of that within six months. Without your own audience, skip the paid library and give the skills away free to drive traffic to your other products.Worth a try · grade and headline drawn from the full article · next review 12-01
| Background | After Opus 5.5 (09-22), Yihui used a free video library to drive traffic, and Skillry hit $10k a month in three weeks |
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| Upside | Two or three weeks after a new model launches, everyone wants a "looks great" Skill, and they'll pay for a finished product |
| Demand | Finished outputs people look at: videos, slide decks, landing pages. Buyers pay for taste, not steps. |
| Competition | About 5,600 free Skill repos, and the official Marketplace installs them for free. The only thing left to sell in paid libraries is taste |
| Revenue | Skillry: $12,216 in October, $4,241 MRR. The three apps from the previous wave have fallen 69%–99% from their peaks. |
| Growth | A free portfolio repo plus X threads plus 40% affiliate, no paid acquisition. Once the repo stops growing, income stops with it. |
| Window | Count one to two weeks from the model's release date. A wave lasts two to three months, and the next wave follows the next model. |
| Who it's for | One or two people who already have their own traffic, a sense of design, and can ship within 7 days. |