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TLDR

A Claude Code plugin that adds ten slash commands based on The Minimalist Entrepreneur book, guiding founders and developers through idea validation, product scoping, pricing, and finding first customers.

Mindmap

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  root((ME Skills Plugin))
    What it does
      10 slash commands
      Book-based framework
      AI-guided questions
    Commands
      Idea validation
      Product scoping
      Pricing guidance
      Finding customers
    Install
      Claude Code commands
      Two-step setup
    Audience
      Founders
      Freelancers
      Developer-builders
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Run the idea-validation command before starting to build something new, to stress-test whether it is worth pursuing.

USE CASE 2

Use the minimum-product command to scope your first version down to only the features that matter for an initial launch.

USE CASE 3

Run the pricing command to think through what to charge and how to frame the value for your first paying customers.

Tech stack

Claude Code

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires Claude Code to be installed, two short commands in the Claude Code terminal complete the setup.

In plain English

This repository is a plugin for Claude Code, a command-line tool that lets you interact with an AI assistant while writing software. The plugin adds ten slash commands to Claude Code, each corresponding to a chapter or concept from the book The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia, who is the founder of Gumroad. The book lays out a framework for building a small, profitable business without venture capital or a large team. This plugin translates those ideas into interactive commands you can run while working on your project. For example, there is a command for validating whether a business idea is worth pursuing, one for scoping your first product to a minimum useful size, one for figuring out how to find your first hundred customers, and one for setting prices. Each command is designed to guide a conversation with the AI using the reasoning from the book. Installation is done directly inside Claude Code using two short commands that fetch the plugin and register all ten skills. The README also includes an alternative method for people who prefer to clone the repository manually before installing it. The skills follow the sequence of the book, starting from finding a community around a shared problem, moving through building and selling a product manually before automating it, and ending with a general review command for applying minimalist business principles to any decision. The target audience is founders, freelancers, or developers who are thinking about starting or growing a small business and want a structured way to think through those questions while they work.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I just installed the Minimalist Entrepreneur Claude Code skills. Run the idea-validation skill on my concept: a browser extension that summarises Slack threads.
Prompt 2
Use the first-hundred-customers skill to help me figure out where my target users hang out and how I could reach the first hundred without paid ads.
Prompt 3
I have a working product but no paying customers yet. Run the pricing skill and help me decide between a monthly subscription and a one-time fee.
Prompt 4
Walk me through the community-first skill from the Minimalist Entrepreneur plugin and apply it to a niche around indie game developers.
Prompt 5
Use the manual-before-automated skill to help me design a manual version of my service I could run by hand before writing any code to automate it.
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