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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
HN · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent skill registries · 411 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 411 launches in ai agent skill registries →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a curated digital marketplace and MCP server exposing metadata and markdown skill files via a standard REST API.
Discussion
16 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Lack of defensible moat, Users can generate skills for free using LLMs, Paid skills market may lean towards open-source instead, No skills currently listed or curated on the platform
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2330 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #484 of 2331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ai-engineering-hub · github · 2026-11-07 · 176 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- The Twistor's Engineer · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- skills · github · 2026-10-03 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I built a way to find and install Claude skills · hn · 2026-06-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Codingagents.md · hn · 2026-02-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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