Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
23 points - yesterday at 4:53 PM
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
> 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?
Rickado55today at 9:04 AM
AI is already useful across so many tasks but having specialized skills that make it better at specific workflows could be a huge productivity boost.
aliasxneoyesterday at 7:25 PM
I feel like skills are going to succumb to influencer branding. People will use the ones their idol says to use.
radladyesterday at 9:51 PM
I 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.
babelfishyesterday at 6:58 PM
Are there intentionally zero skills listed/curated?
jpeaseyesterday at 8:29 PM
Why not ask the AI to research the topic you’re interested in and draft the skill(s) for you?
holodukeyesterday at 9:15 PM
Sorry 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.
christiansafkayesterday at 6:42 PM
now do craigslist for human skills, curated by AI!