{"slug": "i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit", "title": "I gave Claude Code $100 and 30 days to turn a profit", "summary": "A developer released Solo Stack, a set of 26 Claude Code skills for freelancers covering the client lifecycle from lead research and proposals to invoicing and weekly reviews, priced at $19 during launch on Gumroad. The package includes five free skills — /setup-business, /meeting-notes-to-actions, /invoice-generator, /weekly-review, and /linkedin-post — that all read a shared .solo/business.md context file, and is distributed under the MIT license via a GitHub repository and Claude Code plugin marketplace.", "body_md": "**Five free Claude Code skills for the business side of working for yourself.**\n\nClaude Code is great at code. This makes it useful for the other two-thirds of a freelancer's week: meeting notes, invoices, weekly reviews, and posts — all reading one shared context file so you explain your business once.\n\n```\n# macOS / Linux\ngit clone https://github.com/rickbauer327-cell/solo-stack-starter\ncp -r solo-stack-starter/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/\n# Windows\ngit clone https://github.com/rickbauer327-cell/solo-stack-starter\nCopy-Item -Recurse solo-stack-starter\\skills\\* \"$env:USERPROFILE\\.claude\\skills\\\"\n```\n\nOr as a plugin, inside Claude Code:\n\n```\n/plugin marketplace add rickbauer327-cell/solo-stack-starter\n/plugin install solo-stack-starter@solo-stack-starter\n```\n\nThen in the folder where you keep your business files:\n\n```\n/setup-business\n```\n\n| Skill | What it does | \n|---|---|\n| `/setup-business` | Interviews you (in small batches) and writes `.solo/business.md` — services, rates, terms, tone, clients. Every other skill reads it first. | \n| `/meeting-notes-to-actions` | Notes or transcript → decisions, owned actions, open questions, and a follow-up email under 150 words. Never upgrades \"we could\" into \"we will\". | \n| `/invoice-generator` | Time log or line items → numbered HTML invoice (prints to PDF) + markdown copy. Scans `invoices/` so numbers never repeat. | \n| `/weekly-review` | Reads your time log, this week's meetings, overdue invoices → what happened, what's stuck, one \"must\" for next week. | \n| `/linkedin-post` | Idea or link → three variants in your voice. Hooks under 12 words, no engagement bait. | \n\nEvery skill here follows the same shape, and you can use it for your own:\n\n```\n---\nname: skill-name\ndescription: Use when the user <says or needs X>. Produces <Y>.\n---\n## Step 1 — Load context     read .solo/business.md\n## Step 2 — Inputs           max 3 questions at a time\n## Step 3 — Write            an output path + a template\n## Rules                     3–6 opinions about what good looks like\n## Do not                    hard constraints (never invent prices, dates, results)\n```\n\nThree things that matter more than they look: the `description` is the trigger, so write it with the words you actually say; write files, not chat, so skills can build on each other; and constraints (\"under 150 words\") beat instructions (\"be concise\").\n\nSolo Stack has 26 skills covering the whole client lifecycle — lead research, cold outreach, discovery-call prep, proposals, pricing, SOW, kickoff, weekly client updates, scope-creep guard, late-payment sequence, monthly finance summary, case studies, testimonials, a one-file portfolio site, inbox triage, SOPs, decision memos — plus a playbook on chaining and customizing them.\n\n→ **[Get Solo Stack on Gumroad](https://solostack91.gumroad.com/l/solo-stack)** — $19 during launch.\n\nMIT. Use, modify, share.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/rickbauer327-cell/solo-stack-starter", "published_at": "2026-09-16 09:31:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 09:42:41.129396+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Solo Stack", "Gumroad", "GitHub", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-gave-claude-code-100-and-30-days-to-turn-a-profit.jsonld"}}