From Idea to Live Product, Designed and Built
Designing a Product, Then Shipping It
SkillHub is my own product: a curated home for Claude skills and connectors, with starter kits for designers, product managers and developers. I designed it, built it with Claude Code as my development partner, and run it.
The first version went live in a week. Since then it has grown from a simple directory into 1,300+ reviewed skills, task-based starter kits and step-by-step workflows. Small team of one, sharp choices, a product that keeps growing.
Closing the Gap Between Vision and Shipping
For most of my career, the work stopped at the handoff. Design in Figma, then wait for someone else to build it. With SkillHub I wanted to find out what happens when a designer owns the whole chain. I know CSS, not databases or deployment pipelines. What I did bring was years of product thinking: structuring information, scoping, deciding what to build and what to cut. That turned out to be exactly what building with AI requires. The clearer I framed a problem, the way I’d write a good design brief, the better the result. The first version, with a database, admin dashboard and automated content discovery, was live within a week.
From Directory to Starter Kits
The first version was a directory you could search and filter. It worked, until it didn’t. As the catalogue grew past a thousand skills, browsing became the problem instead of the solution. Nobody wants to compare a thousand tools to find the five that matter. So I redesigned the product around the question people actually ask: what should I install for the work I do? Every skill is now reviewed, and the homepage starts with your role. Designers, product managers and developers each get short, ordered starter kits per task, from UX research to design systems.
Workflows: Skills in the Right Order
Knowing which skills exist is one thing. Knowing how to combine them is where the value is. Workflows are recipes: skills and connectors in sequence, for real jobs like a design review, a weekly update or going from brand to polished UI. Each step explains what it does and why it comes next, so you can install the whole chain and run it. It’s the same thinking I apply to any design process: break the job down, put the steps in order, and make every step clear.
A Product That Grows Itself
I didn’t want a side project that dies the moment I stop feeding it. Automated jobs scan GitHub and package registries for new skills every week. New finds land in my admin dashboard, ready to review and approve. The catalogue grows without me hunting for entries. I curate, the system does the rest. Building SkillHub taught me that the technical part was never the hardest. Taste, focus and high agency were. And the hardest part comes after launch: getting the right people to find it.