Cold Start Problem

Cold Start Problem is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by wondelai in skills.

1.9K stars195 forkson wondelai/skillsAdded 2026/08/18+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/10

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Install Cold Start Problem

Copy Cold Start Problem into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/main/cold-start-problem ~/.claude/skills/cold-start-problem

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wondelai/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: cold-start-problem/SKILL.md in wondelai/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cold-start-problem
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Cold Start Problem does

Cold Start Problem is a framework for starting and scaling networked products, based on Andrew Chen's model of network effects. Use it to plan cold starts, seed atomic networks, solve the hard side of marketplaces, and diagnose stalled network growth.

Cold Start Problem is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Cold Start Problem comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-skills, business, claude-code and claude-code-marketplace.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

The Cold Start Problem

A framework for starting and scaling products that live or die by network effects — marketplaces, social apps, messaging, and collaboration tools — distilled from Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem. Use it to launch products that are worthless until other users show up, to sequence growth network by network, and to navigate the five stages: the cold start, the tipping point, escape velocity, hitting the ceiling, and the moat.

Core Principle

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cold Start Problem

What else does wondelai publish alongside Cold Start Problem?
Cold Start Problem is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wondelai/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 37signals Way, Blue Ocean Strategy and CRO Methodology. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cold Start Problem does, and is maintained by wondelai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wondelai/skills page.
How does Cold Start Problem compare to other Automation skills?
Cold Start Problem ranks #520 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cold Start Problem against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.