Sell to your first 100 customers: the minimalist entrepreneur playbook
Sahil Lavingia's minimalist-entrepreneur playbook for selling one by one — concentric circles of sales, pricing, metrics, and a don't-launch-until-100-customers rule
- What
- Sahil Lavingia's minimalist-entrepreneur playbook for selling one by one — concentric circles of sales, pricing, metrics, and a don't-launch-until-100-customers rule
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- a product to sell — the skill is business coaching the agent follows, not software to install
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Selected by Skill Harbor — short listing (the repo states no license, so no content is reproduced): @slavingia's first-customers skill — a business-advisor agent channeling the philosophy of "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" by Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad founder): skip the launch, focus on selling; the core principle that "viral success" is a myth and every overnight success is built on months of hard work. The concentric circles of sales (sell outward from friends-and-family to community to cold strangers), sales reframed as education not persuasion, pricing guidance (charge something — the zero-price effect; cost-based vs value-based; start low and raise), key metrics (manual sales = 99% of early growth; product-market fit = repeat customers), the rule to not launch until 100 paying customers (launch as a celebration, not an acquisition strategy), and a concrete output (lists of 10 friends/family and 10 community members to pitch this week, a cold-outreach template, an initial pricing strategy, a weekly sales goal). Honest caveats: business coaching, not software — the example cold email in the skill is from 2014-era Gumroad outreach, adapt it to your product; license not stated by the source repo — short listing with a link only, nothing copied. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Discovered via skills.sh.
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Prerequisites: a product to sell — the skill is business coaching the agent follows, not software to install Install "Sell to your first 100 customers: the minimalist entrepreneur playbook" for me. It gives my agent @slavingia's first-customers coaching: the minimalist-entrepreneur sales philosophy, the concentric circles of sales (friends/family → community → cold outreach), pricing guidance, key early-stage metrics, the don't-launch-until-100-customers rule, and a concrete weekly sales output. IMPORTANT: the repo states no license — fetch from the link only, and reproduce nothing beyond the link. Repository: https://github.com/slavingia/skills/blob/main/skills/first-customers/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "first-customers". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. tell the agent what you're selling so it can build your pitch lists; nothing else — it's coaching). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.