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cold-start-problem

Start and scale networked products using Andrew Chen''s "The Cold Start Problem" framework for network effects. Use when the user mentions "network effects", "chicken and egg", "cold start", "two-sided marketplace", "atomic network", "hard side", "liquidity", "critical mass", "invite-only launch", "how do I get my first users", or "the marketplace has no buyers or sellers". Also trigger when launching a marketplace, social, or collaboration product that is worthless without other users, deciding launch sequencing and seeding tactics, or diagnosing stalled network growth at scale. Covers the fi

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

2,464 stars +68 this week Updated 2mo ago License MIT Context ≈155 tokens always loaded

68popular

Why this score

Stars

17/35

Usage (forks)

6/15

Upkeep

20/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 2,464 stars are split between them (about 246 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 68/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit c172996495be, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

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Alternatives

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Name	Score	Stars	Context	Updated
This onecold-start-problem wondelai/skills · Skill	68	★ 2.5k	≈155 always	2mo ago
cold-start-interview anthropics/claude-for-legal · Skill Both about cold and start	81	★ 9.7k	≈24 always	21d ago
cold-outreach runxhq/runx · Skill Both about cold	58	★ 103	≈52 always	16d ago
cold-review Cotal-AI/Cotal · Skill Both about cold and hard	62	★ 331	≈151 always	16d ago
cold-email-writer Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills · Skill Both about cold	63	★ 2.8k	≈31 always	5mo ago
cold-email coreyhaines31/marketingskills · Skill Both about cold and mention	88	★ 56k	≈153 always	16d ago

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/cold-start-problem

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/wondelai/skills/tar.gz/c172996495bed0fcd26896a9416b2093fd7073f0 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/cold-start-problem --strip-components=2 "skills-c172996495bed0fcd26896a9416b2093fd7073f0/cold-start-problem"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/cold-start-problem

npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill cold-start-problem

Pinned to commit c172996495be as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈155 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈4.7k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Facts

Repo: wondelai/skills
Stars: 2,464
Forks: 247
Last push: 2026-09-10 (2mo ago)
License: MIT
Owner: wondelai · since 2023
Language: Shell
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI