Claude Code Skills: Minimalist Entrepreneur Guide
Claude Code Skills: Build Your Business with AI-Powered Minimalism
Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, has distilled his entrepreneurial wisdom from The Minimalist Entrepreneur into a powerful set of Claude Code skills. This GitHub repository (slavingia/skills) transforms his book into 10 actionable slash commands you can use directly in Claude Code.
One-Command Installation
Getting started is dead simple:
In Claude Code, run:
/plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur
Claude automatically fetches the repo and registers all 10 skills. Alternatively, clone locally and add manually.
The 10 Essential Skills
These skills follow the book's proven progression:
| Skill | Command | When to Use |
|---|---|---|
| Find Community | /find-community |
Looking for business ideas, finding your people |
| Validate Idea | /validate-idea |
Testing if an idea is worth pursuing |
| MVP | /mvp |
Ready to build but struggling with scope |
| Processize | /processize |
Deliver value manually before coding |
| First Customers | /first-customers |
Find your first 100 customers |
| Pricing | /pricing |
Set prices from day one |
| Marketing Plan | /marketing-plan |
Scale with content after product-market fit |
| Grow Sustainably | /grow-sustainably |
Make smart spending/hiring decisions |
| Company Values | /company-values |
Define culture before hiring |
| Minimalist Review | /minimalist-review |
Gut-check any business decision |
The Minimalist Journey
- Community → Find your people
- Validate → Confirm the problem matters
- Processize → Ship manual value first
- Sell → Get to 100 customers one-by-one
- Market → Build audience through content
- Grow → Stay profitable while scaling
- Culture → Build the company you want
- Review → Apply minimalism to every decision
Why This Matters
With 6.2k stars and contributions from Claude's team, this isn't theory—it's battle-tested. Solo founders, indie hackers, and bootstrappers now have AI co-pilot for Lavingia's proven system.
Pro Tip: Start with /processize for your next idea. Deliver value by hand today instead of perfecting code for months.
Install now and let Claude guide your minimalist empire.