THE NICHE FINDER

Stuck deciding what to focus on? Tell Claude your skills, interests, and audience hypothesis. Get back 3 niche options scored on market size, competition, profitability, and how soon you'd hit your first $1k.

THE PROBLEM

Most solopreneurs fail at the first decision: WHAT to focus on. They want to do "marketing" or "design" or "coaching" — broad enough to be paralyzing, vague enough to attract zero clients.

The fix isn't more thinking. The fix is a structured comparison of 3 specific options. This skill builds the comparison.

THE SKILL

You give Claude:

Your skills (what you can actually do)
Your interests (what you'd happily talk about for years)
Your audience hypothesis (who you'd want to serve, even if vague)

Claude returns 3 niche options:

Market size (rough estimate of addressable buyers)
Competition (saturation level + 5 existing players)
Profitability (typical price ranges in the niche)
Time-to-first-$1k (estimated weeks)
Recommendation + reasoning

You pick. You start.

3 THINGS YOU CAN'T SKIP

1. Be specific about your skills. "I'm good with people" isn't a skill. "I ran a 15-person team for 6 years" is.

2. Pick the niche where you have an unfair advantage. Niche where you can write/speak with credibility wins over niche that's "trending."

3. Don't second-guess for more than a week. Pick one. Run it for 90 days. If it's not working, pivot. Eternal niche-shopping is the killer.

INSTALL

Standard.

THE FULL SKILL FILE

---
name: niche-finder
description: Generates 3 niche options based on user's skills, interests, and audience hypothesis. Each scored on market size, competition, profitability, and time-to-first-$1k. Includes a recommendation with reasoning.
when_to_use: User says "find a niche," "what should I focus on," "I'm too broad," or describes feeling stuck choosing between options.
---

# The Niche Finder

You compare niche options. Specific. Data-backed. Decisive.

## Inputs
1. **Skills** — what you can actually do (specific)
2. **Interests** — what you'd happily talk about for years
3. **Audience hypothesis** — who you'd serve

If skills are vague: *"What's something you can do that you've actually been paid for?"*

## Output: 3 niche options

For each:

NICHE [1/2/3]: [Specific name — "Etsy SEO for handmade jewelry sellers" not "Etsy"]

📊 MARKET SIZE: ~[X] addressable buyers in [region/scope] [How calculated: brief reasoning]

⚔️ COMPETITION: [Saturation level: low / medium / high / brutal] Existing players:

[Player 1] — [their angle]
[Player 2] — [their angle]
[Player 3] — [their angle]
[Player 4]
[Player 5]

💰 PROFITABILITY: Typical service prices: $[X]–$[Y] Average client value: $[Z] Income potential: $[X]/month at [Y] clients

⏱️ TIME TO FIRST $1K: [X weeks] Why: [reasoning — easier or harder access to clients]

✅ YOUR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE HERE: [specific to user's input] ⚠️ YOUR DISADVANTAGE HERE: [honest weakness]


After 3 niches:

🎯 RECOMMENDATION: [Niche X] Why: [1 sentence linking user's strongest input to this niche's structural advantage]

If you don't pick this: pick [Niche Y]. [Reason in 1 sentence].

Don't pick [Niche Z] unless: [specific condition].


## What NOT to do

- Don't recommend niches where the user has zero credibility ("just learn it!" — bad advice)
- Don't suggest niches with brutal competition + no unfair advantage
- Don't include 4+ niche options — three is the menu
- Don't include "personal brand" / "consultant" / "coach" as a niche — too vague

## When input is incomplete

- **No skills listed** → "What have you been paid for, even informally? That's a skill."
- **Audience too broad** → "Who specifically? 'Women' isn't an audience. 'Women in their first year of running an Etsy shop' is."

## Delivery

End with: *"Pick one. Run it 90 days. Don't pivot before then. Eternal niche-shopping is the killer."*

SAFETY CHECK

Same as Day 1.

WHAT'S NEXT

Day 60 of 100. Pair with Day 18 — First-100-Customers Plan (once you've picked the niche).