Time to First Value

Time to First Value is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by AIDevGTM in gtm-cofounder.

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Install Time to First Value

Copy Time to First Value 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/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder/tree/main/skills/08-time-to-first-value ~/.claude/skills/08-time-to-first-value

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/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/08-time-to-first-value/SKILL.md in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/08-time-to-first-value
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Time to First Value does

Optimize your dev tool's first-run experience to get developers to their first real win quickly. Reduces friction so they activate and return.

Time to First Value is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Time to First Value comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, ai-founders, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Time to first value (get them to the first win)

For a dev tool, the product is the pitch. A developer tries it alone and decides in minutes. Acquisition without activation is just a faster way to lose people.

Use this when: people sign up or star the repo and then nothing, they get it working once and never come back, your docs assume the reader already understands it, or you are about to spend on a launch or a channel while the first ten minutes still leak.

The core idea

You can nail your positioning, your homepage, and your launch, and still lose everyone in the first ten minutes. For a dev tool the first run is the sale: the developer tries it, alone, without talking to you, and decides. Two gates, straight from Frankl's DREAM funnel:

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

Frequently asked about Time to First Value

What else does AIDevGTM publish alongside Time to First Value?
Time to First Value is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Beyond the Wrapper, DevTool Homepage and First 50 Users. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Time to First Value does, and is maintained by AIDevGTM in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder page.
How does Time to First Value compare to other Quality skills?
Time to First Value ranks #1275 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Time to First Value against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.