Find Community
A business-advisor skill that helps you start your minimalist business from a community you already belong to, not from a product idea.
Pure prompt-based advisory skill: no scripts, external calls, or sensitive-data handling; minimal privilege, no external effects, negligible rollback/isolation risk. Deducted for unknown license metadata and self-declared attribution (book citation) without independently verifiable authorization details.
Internally self-consistent, well-structured (framework, criteria, anti-patterns, output spec), no external dependencies, plausible happy path. Deducted for no abnormal-input handling, no failure-feedback design, no tests or boundary examples; static review cannot confirm behavior stability.
Clear trigger description and audience, defined output format. Deducted for missing capability boundaries/non-fit ranges, English-only content with no Chinese localization, and semantic overlap with sibling entrepreneurial skills (e.g., validate-idea) that could cause fuzzy invocation.
Readable, concrete output template, consistent with README matrix. Deducted for no license, no versioning, no changelog, no known-limitation disclosure, no FAQs or example dialogues, and maintenance responsibility only inferable.
As a structured advisory framework it should guide users to a usable 1-3 community shortlist; marginal value is converting book methodology into guided questioning. Deducted because static review cannot verify actual output quality; effectiveness depends on model execution with no representative output evidence.
Attribution points to the book and author site; primary material is auditable. Deducted for no tests, no execution evidence, no third-party corroboration, and unverifiable claims about the methodology's efficacy.
- License metadata is unknown; confirm authorization before commercial use or redistribution.
- Static review only, no execution; real output quality depends on model behavior.
- English-only content; Chinese-language community/market scenarios need manual localization.
- Trigger boundaries with sibling skills like validate-idea are fuzzy and may cause mis-invocation.
What does this skill do, and when should you use it?
This skill acts as a business advisor channeling The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia, built on the principle "start with community, not with a product idea." It walks you through structured questions to inventory the communities you are already part of — professional groups, hobbies, online forums, local organizations — then evaluates each against four criteria: genuine membership, willingness to pay, reachability, and right-sized niche. It also flags anti-patterns like inventing a community from scratch or chasing market size over genuine interest. The output narrows you to 1-3 communities worth serving, each with a persistent problem, your connection to it, and where its members gather.
It is a purely conversational facilitation skill: it prompts the user through four framework questions (communities already joined, where they spend time online, recurring complaints heard, which communities they would serve for years); applies four evaluation criteria to each candidate (genuine member, painful enough to pay for, reachable, large enough but not too large); calls out anti-patterns (inventing communities, choosing by market size alone, skipping participation, targeting too broad an audience); and produces a structured output listing each community, its persistent problem, the user's connection to it, and where the community gathers online and offline.
- An aspiring founder with no product idea who wants to mine their existing circles for a starting point
- An active member of a hobby or professional community (Reddit, Discord, a local group) wondering whether a pay-solvable problem exists there
- A reader of The Minimalist Entrepreneur who wants to turn the 'community first' principle into a concrete shortlist
- Someone torn between several directions who needs objective criteria to narrow down to 1-3 communities
- A founder tempted by a broad 'everyone on the internet' market who needs to be pushed toward a niche they can dominate
What are this skill's strengths and limitations?
- Well-structured methodology: framework questions, evaluation criteria, anti-pattern list, and a defined output format make sessions reproducible
- Pure prompt implementation with no scripts or external dependencies — near-zero migration cost
- A clear output contract (1-3 communities with four attributes) that feeds directly into next-step validation
- Honest scope boundaries — it won't invent product plans or pretend you can manufacture a community
- Output quality depends entirely on the user's self-reported community experience; the skill fetches or verifies no external data
- Recommendations are qualitative — no market sizing, competition analysis, or quantitative evidence
- No tests, example dialogues, or version history; the repository's license is not stated
- It is step one of a 10-skill chain; on its own it covers only the starting point, not validation, pricing, or growth
How do you install this skill?
In Claude Code run:
/plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur
This installs the full collection of 10 skills, including this one. Alternative: clone https://github.com/slavingia/skills.git to ~/.claude/plugins/skills, then run the same two /plugin commands. The README does not document installing this single skill in isolation.
How do you use this skill?
In Claude Code, run /find-community or trigger it with a prompt like "I want to start a business but don't know where to begin — help me find my community." Then answer the four framework questions as prompted. It also works in any client that supports the open Agent Skills standard.
How does this skill compare with similar options?
It comes from the same slavingia/skills collection as Validate Idea (/validate-idea), which takes its output and tests whether the problem is worth solving — a sequential pipeline, not competing tools.