ok so this might be obvious to some of you but it just clicked for me claude code is horizontal right? like its general purpose, can do anything. but the real value is skills. and when you start making skills… you’re literally building what these YC ai startups are charging $20/month for like I needed a latex system. handwritten math, images, graphs, tables - convert to latex then pdf. the “startup” version of this is Mathpix - they charge like $5-10/month for exactly this. or theres a bunch of other OCR-to-latex tools popping up on product hunt every week instead I just asked claue code to download a latex compiler, hook it up with deepseek OCR, build the whole pipeline. took maybe 20 minutes of back and forth. now I have a skill that does exactly what I need and its mine forever https://github.com/ndpvt-web/latex-document-skill if anyone wants it idk maybe I’m late to this realization but it feels like we’re all sitting on this horizontal tool and not realizing we can just… make the vertical products ourselves? every “ai wrapper” startup is basically a claude code skill with a payment form attached anyone else doing this? building skills that replace stuff you’d normally pay for? submitted by /u/techiee_
Originally posted by u/techiee_ on r/ClaudeCode