Product Discovery
Product Discovery through an 18-task methodology in 6 blocks — from market analysis to an investor-ready financial plan. Use when someone wants to run Product Discovery, validate a startup, assess a market hypothesis, prepare for an investment round, or raises an adjacent topic — idea validation, niche sizing, competitor teardown, product-market fit, pitch preparation, startup unit economics, geographic expansion into a new country, go-to-market for SEA / Asia / MENA. People rarely name PD explicitly; they say 'is there a market for this', 'assess my idea', 'I need a deck for an angel', 'we ar
Install
npx skills add ipavelm/ultimate-product-discovery-skill --skill product-discoverygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipavelm/ultimate-product-discovery-skill.git /tmp/ultimate-product-discovery-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/ultimate-product-discovery-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/product-discoveryPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Product Discovery This skill runs a structured investigation of a startup's market hypothesis. It combines several methodologies: Jobs-to-be-Done (Ulwick/Christensen), Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresa Torres), Customer Development (Steve Blank), The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick), Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya), PESTEL, SWOT and the Business Model Canvas. The output is three artifacts, or four in Full mode, in `/mnt/user-data/outputs/`: - `one-pager-[slug].pptx` — a short summary for a CEO or investor - `financial-plan-[slug].xlsx` — a financial model built on the main scenario - `presentation-[slug].pptx` — Verification-stage deck - `interview-guide-[slug].docx` — guide for live interviews (Full mode only, from task 9) ## Where this skill lives The instructions below refer to the skill's own files as `$SKILL_DIR/assets/...` and `$SKILL_DIR/scripts/...`. Resolve `$SKILL_DIR` to the directory this SKILL.md sits in: | Runtime | `$SKILL_DIR` | |---------|--------------| | Claude Code, global install | `~/.claude/skills/product-discovery` | | Claude Code, project install | `./.claude/skills/product-discovery` | | claude.ai / mounted runtime | `/mnt/skills/user/product-discovery` | Set it once at the start of the run, so every later command is portable: ```bash SKILL_DIR="$(dirname "$(find ~ /mnt/skills -name SKILL.md -path '*product-discovery*' 2>/dev/null | head -1)")" echo "$SKILL_DIR" ``` ## How the skill is organised
Details
- Skill name
product-discovery- Repository
- ipavelm/ultimate-product-discovery-skill
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 27 August 2026
FAQ
What does the Product Discovery skill do?
Product Discovery through an 18-task methodology in 6 blocks — from market analysis to an investor-ready financial plan. Use when someone wants to run Product Discovery, validate a startup, assess a market hypothesis, prepare for an investment round, or raises an adjacent topic — idea validation, niche sizing, competitor teardown, product-market fit, pitch preparation, startup unit economics, geographic expansion into a new country, go-to-market for SEA / Asia / MENA. People rarely name PD explicitly; they say 'is there a market for this', 'assess my idea', 'I need a deck for an angel', 'we ar
How do I install the Product Discovery skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add ipavelm/ultimate-product-discovery-skill --skill product-discovery. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Product Discovery popular?
It lives in ipavelm/ultimate-product-discovery-skill, which has 23 GitHub stars and 3 forks.
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