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Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more efficiently.
for example, redlining contracts, creating ai generated videos, different website designs, and more.
curious to see if this resonates with folks here. i figure a more engineering'y audience that's ai coding-agent forward would have similar problems to what inspired me to make this
- mushavar 15d ago[flagged]
- christiansafka 15d agonow do craigslist for human skills, curated by AI!
- boredumb 15d agoAIngies list
- kouteiheika 15d ago> buy paid skills [..] curious to see if this resonates with folks here Probably not. I'm going to be a little bit reductive, but: why would I buy a markdown file that someone most likely got an LLM to generate while I can just simply get my own LLM to generate a similar one for me for free?
- dakolli 15d ago[dead]
- guywithahat 15d agoPresumably, like all things, skills will just become increasingly complex until generating them requires architectural understanding. Also I’m sure there are sufficiently nontechnical people who would be happy to pay $5 for something that just works. That said, I do think it’s hard to see myself paying for skills. It feels like something that lends itself to OSS
- skeptrune 15d agoFair
- dSebastien 15d agoYes there definitely are.
- yencabulator 14d agoMeanwhile, the AI labs are saying with the models getting smarter skills etc should be less verbose and just let the model do the thinking.
- Arubis 15d agoYeah, HN isn't going to be your target market by and large -- this is the home of the folks that would, at most, pull up a page describing a skill and dump it into a harness. I wouldn't take that as fatal. Most people aren't HN people.
- gpugreg 15d agoI thought the same when someone promoted their platform for selling image prompts here on HN, but now they have at least 100k sales. I guess there will always be people willing to pay for something if it takes even the slightest bit of effort.
- babelfish 15d agoAre there intentionally zero skills listed/curated?
- skeptrune 15d agoI have a backlog of 20 or so to review right now and am getting that out as fast as I can.
- aliasxneo 15d agoI feel like skills are going to succumb to influencer branding. People will use the ones their idol says to use.
- Arubis 15d agoAgreed here, though this product/marketplace may be able to be a landing site for precisely that.
- jpease 15d agoWhy not ask the AI to research the topic you’re interested in and draft the skill(s) for you?
- skeptrune 15d agothey're usually pretty bad. a lot of domain specific information just isn't public
- holoduke 15d agoSorry to say that this probably has no valuable moat. And that is becoming an increasingly bigger issue for many companies. There is no longer the need for many services and products. There is some serious demand for expertise in the field of AI automation. But it requires experts with domain knowledge. Almost no companies have this. The end is near for those.
- radlad 15d agoI had a similar idea but as a marketplace for agents to purchase from. Many AI tasks involve building a pipeline as step 1. If everyone is building the same pipelines, why not offer them as a service? If it's cheaper per token, and maybe higher quality... I then started wondering how agents could submit benchmarks and request bids in a verifiable manner.
- Rickado55 15d agoAI is already useful across so many tasks but having specialized skills that make it better at specific workflows could be a huge productivity boost.