# First Revenue > Strategy for getting Your Project's first paying customer. Use when discussing revenue, pricing, monetization, or what to sell. Based on Minimalist Entrepreneur principles adapted for our stage. - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-pattyboi101-oats-autonomous-agents-first-revenue` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [Pattyboi101](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pattyboi101) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** MIT - **Upstream author:** [Pattyboi101](https://github.com/Pattyboi101) - **Source:** https://github.com/Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents/tree/master/skills/first-revenue ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-pattyboi101-oats-autonomous-agents-first-revenue ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # First Revenue — Your Project You are advising on Your Project's path to first revenue. The product exists (3,100+ tools, MCP server, migration intelligence). The challenge is going from 0 to 1 paying customer. ## Before Starting Check current state: - How many users? (Currently ~55) - How many maker claims? (Check prod DB) - What distribution is live? (Blog, registries, outreach emails) - What responses have we gotten? (Email replies, claims, traffic) ## Core Principle (from Sahil Lavingia) **Skip the launch. Focus on selling.** Every seemingly overnight success is built on hard work. Sell one by one, learn from each interaction, build momentum. For Your Project this means: don't build pricing pages and payment flows. Have ONE conversation with ONE maker about what they'd pay for. Then build that. ## The Concentric Circles (adapted for Your Project) ### Circle 1: Makers Who Already Claimed These people engaged with us. They're warmest. - What did they do after claiming? (Check dashboard usage) - What data did they look at? - What did they wish they could see? - ASK THEM: "What would you pay $10/month to know about how agents recommend your tool?" ### Circle 2: Makers Who Opened Our Email They showed interest but didn't claim. - Follow up with more data about their specific tool - Show them something they can't get elsewhere (migration data, agent query logs) ### Circle 3: Cold Outreach to Tool Makers The 24 emails we sent. More batches if earlier ones show signal. ## What We Could Sell (honest assessment) ### Option A: Sponsored Placement ($29-99/mo) "Your tool appears first when agents search for {category}" - Pro: clear value, easy to understand - Con: need agent volume to make it meaningful. Currently low. ### Option B: Competitive Intelligence Report ($29 one-off) "Here's what repos are migrating from your competitor to you (and vice versa)" - Pro: unique data nobody else has, can sell TODAY - Con: one-off, doesn't compound ### Option C: Maker Dashboard Premium ($9-29/mo) "See which agents recommend you, what queries surface you, daily trends" - Pro: recurring, scales with more agent usage - Con: data is thin for most tools right now ### Option D: API Access for Tool Makers ($49-299/mo) "Programmatic access to migration data, compatibility pairs, competitive intel" - Pro: high-value for marketing teams at bigger tools - Con: pricing is unvalidated, market size unknown ## How This Skill Works ### Mode 1: Pre-Revenue (current stage) No paying customers yet. Focus on getting first conversation, not first payment. ### Mode 2: First Conversations A maker has claimed their tool. Turn that into a pricing conversation. ### Mode 3: First Payment Someone expressed willingness to pay. Close it. ## What NOT to Do - Don't build Stripe integration until someone says "shut up and take my money" - Don't invent pricing tiers without talking to a real maker - Don't call anything a "moat" or claim defensibility we don't have - Don't compare ourselves to VC-backed companies ($299/mo is their price, not ours) ## The One Thing to Do First **Talk to a maker.** Not email them a claim link — TALK to them. When someone claims their tool, reply personally: ``` Hey, thanks for claiming {tool}! I'm Pat, one of the founders. Quick question — what would be most useful to you about knowing how AI agents recommend your tool? We're figuring out what's worth building next. ``` That conversation tells us what to charge for. Everything else is guessing. ## Proactive Triggers - **Maker claims a tool** → Draft a personal reply (Mode 2) - **Someone asks "do you have a paid plan?"** → This is the buy signal. Don't deflect. - **Tempted to build pricing page** → Check: has anyone asked to pay? If no, stop. - **Strategy discussion mentions "$299/mo"** → Challenge. Who said they'd pay that? ## Output Artifacts | Situation | Deliverable | |-----------|------------| | Pre-revenue planning | Priority list: who to talk to first | | Maker claimed | Personal reply email draft | | Pricing conversation | Proposed price point with reasoning | | First payment | Stripe setup checklist | ## Pricing (from Sahil) - There is a massive difference between free and $1 - Start low, raise over time - Pricing is iterative, not permanent - Goal: can we be profitable from customer #1? - Math: $29/mo × 70 customers = ~$2k/mo. One new customer per week = 1 year. ## Source & license This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [Pattyboi101](https://github.com/Pattyboi101) - **Source:** [Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents](https://github.com/Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents) - **License:** MIT Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** no - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-pattyboi101-oats-autonomous-agents-first-revenue - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pattyboi101 - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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