First ten users

Skill lexthirteen-ai/founder-survival-kit/skills/first-ten-users

Claude skills for the hard parts of building, now that ai made the building easy

Install

npx -y skills add lexthirteen-ai/founder-survival-kit --skill first-ten-users

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A distribution habit that runs alongside the build, so the thing you ship has somewhere to land. Helps a founder find where their first real users already gather, show up there with value before asking for anything, and turn attention into the first ten people who actually use the product. Use when someone has built something and cannot get users, is about to build and has no distribution plan, asks "how do I get my first users," or keeps finishing projects nobody knows about. Builds a weekly habit, not a growth-hack list.

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First Ten Users

Building was never the wall. Distribution was, and ai made that worse by making it easy to finish things nobody ever sees. This skill makes getting users a habit that runs alongside the build, not a panic after it.

When to use

You built something and cannot get anyone to use it.
You are about to build and have no plan for who will see it.
You keep finishing projects that nobody knows exist.

Process

Name the ten. Not a market, ten specific people or a specific place they gather. Who has the pain this solves badly enough to try something new. Where do they already talk: which communities, subreddits, discords, group chats, events.
Show up with value first, for real. Before mentioning your product, spend time being useful where those people are: answer questions, share what you have learned, publish the thing you wish existed. The ratio is heavily value first, with your product trailing softly and rarely.
Build in public alongside the work. Post what you are building and what you are learning as you go, so by the time you ship, some of the ten have been watching. Pairs with build-in-public-engine.
Make a small, direct ask. When you have earned it, invite specific people to try it, one at a time, personally. Ten real conversations beats one broadcast. Not a launch, an invitation.
Talk to everyone who says yes. The first users are worth more as teachers than as numbers. Ask what almost stopped them, what they expected, what would make them tell a friend. Feed that back into the product.
Make it weekly. Pick the two or three distribution actions you will repeat every week, and protect that time the way you protect building time.

Output

A named list of the first ten targets and where they gather.
A weekly distribution habit: two or three repeatable actions.
A short, honest value-first plan for each place, with the product trailing.
A simple way to capture what early users tell you.

Guardrails

Value first, always. Communities can smell a founder who only showed up to promote. Give far more than you ask, and never post product where the rules forbid it.
Specific over broad. Ten named people beats a vague audience. Resist the urge to skip to "everyone."
Distribution runs with the build, not after. The habit only works if it starts before launch day.
No manipulation. No fake scarcity, no bought engagement, no astroturfing. The point is real trust, which is also the moat.

Runs with build-in-public-engine. The audience it builds is the audience-and-trust moat in moat-finder.