# The skill I built for my product turned out to be sellable on its own

> Source: <https://dev.to/harsha_kumar/the-skill-i-built-for-my-product-turned-out-to-be-sellable-on-its-own-2mkf>
> Published: 2026-06-25 04:53:01+00:00

For the last 4 months I've been building Xedge — helping people find the right AI tool stack for their specific goal.

This week, needing to cover some short-term costs, I realized something: I've been doing this exact service for free in DMs for months. Someone asks what they're building, I figure out their AI stack, I reply with the breakdown.

That's a sellable skill completely separate from the product itself.

So I'm testing it directly — listing "AI stack research and setup" as a freelance service while XEdge keeps compounding in the background.

The lesson here: sometimes the tool you build to solve a problem at scale has a manual, sellable version hiding inside it. Don't assume the only output of months of building is the product itself — the expertise you gained along the way often has its own market.

Anyone else found unexpected income inside a skill they built for something else entirely?