June 10, 2026 · 2 min read

How to price a skill you built

Toby BanksFounder, Skillzy

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You built something that works. Now you have to put a number on it, and the number is doing more work than you think — it is the first signal a buyer reads about whether this is real.

Price the outcome, not the file

Nobody buys a Markdown file. They buy the three hours a week it gives back, or the fine it stops. Anchor to what the problem costs them, then take a fraction of it.

Cheap is not a strategy

A skill priced like a coffee reads like a toy. The buyers you want — operators with a real problem — will skip it because the price says it cannot be serious. Confidence is part of the product.

Where most land

  • A single sharp skill: enough to mean it, low enough to try
  • A guide that teaches a method: more — you are selling judgement
  • A full agent setup: the most — it replaces a process, not a task

You keep the large majority of every sale here, so the right price is the one that respects the buyer and the work — not the lowest one you can stomach.

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The short version of "how to publish a skill people will actually buy."

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