How to sell a Claude editing skill you built?
Someone built a custom Claude AI editing skill and wants to know where and how to sell it. This touches on a growing question for solo operators: how do you turn an AI tool you made into income?
Claude, made by Anthropic, lets users create 'skills' — custom instruction sets that make the AI behave in a specific way for a specific task. This person built one focused on editing (improving written text) and is looking for the best sales channel.
Common options for selling AI skills or prompts include digital product platforms like Gumroad or Lemon Squeezy, dedicated marketplaces like PromptBase, or selling directly through a newsletter or community. For solo business owners, packaging your expertise as an AI skill is an emerging way to create a sellable digital product with low overhead.
Key points
- A Claude skill is a set of custom instructions that makes the AI do a specific task in a set way
- Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy are easy platforms for selling digital products with low fees
- PromptBase is a dedicated marketplace for buying and selling AI prompts and skills
- Selling directly to your own audience (newsletter, social) cuts out marketplace fees
- Targeting niche communities (e.g. writers, bloggers) where the skill solves a real problem works better than broad listings
Quick term guide
- options
- Financial contracts that give you the right to buy or sell an asset at a set price and time.
- AI skill
- A single, defined task that an AI is set up to perform, like summarizing text or classifying an email.
- digital
- Work or products that can be made and delivered online.
- Gumroad
- An online platform that lets individuals easily sell digital products like files, ebooks, or software.
- PromptBase
- An online marketplace specifically for buying and selling AI prompt and instruction sets
- business
- An activity where you provide value to others in exchange for money.
- Claude Skill
- An add-on or setup that helps Claude handle a specific kind of task.
- listing
- A property that is officially available for sale on the market.