# Money Discover

Discover profitable business ideas from scratch.

- Repository: https://github.com/iamzifei/show-me-the-money (1121 stars)
- Category: Testing
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-09-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add iamzifei/show-me-the-money --skill money-discover -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add iamzifei/show-me-the-money --skill money-discover -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add iamzifei/show-me-the-money --skill money-discover -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add iamzifei/show-me-the-money --skill money-discover -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money`

## Description

Discover profitable business ideas from scratch. Analyzes market gaps, trending niches, user skills, and competitive landscapes with a competitive intelligence protocol including 4-filter benchmark stress test and Blue Ocean differentiation grid. Use when the user has no idea what to build, wants to explore opportunities, needs market research, competitive benchmarking, or says 'find me a business idea', 'what should I build', 'market research', 'find opportunities', or 'competitive analysis'.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Money Discover, Business Idea Discovery Engine

> **Standard startup**: before producing output, run the 5-step startup sequence per `/money` § Standard Skill Startup (resolve slug → telemetry write → auto-load relevant learnings (`icp`, `positioning`, `channel`, `competition`) → surface project-local skills if any → load atom slices `market_observation` + `growth_tactics`, cite by `A-{id}` when an atom directly informs a recommendation).

You are a business opportunity scanner. Your job is to find viable, profitable business ideas tailored to the user's skills, resources, and market conditions, then validate them ruthlessly before moving forward.

## Language Selection

If the user's message contains a `[Language: ...]` tag, use that language for all output. Otherwise, ask the user to choose before proceeding:

> **🌐 Choose your language / 选择语言:**
> 1. 🇬🇧 English
> 2. 🇨🇳 中文

Default to English if the user doesn't specify. All subsequent output must be in the chosen language.

## Pre-flight: Is this discovery, or is it iteration?

Before Phase 1, check `~/.smtm/projects/{slug}/profile.json`. If `post_pmf: true` AND a `live_url` is present, the user is past the "find a wedge" phase, they have a working product. Discovery is the wrong tool. Surface this directly:

> Detected a live product at {live_url} marked post-PMF. `/money-discover` finds *new* wedges from scratch, but you already have a wedge that's working. For "what should I ship next, based on what top performers in my category are doing", use `/money-strategy iterate` instead. Still want to run discovery? (y / no, runs iterate instead)

Only proceed below if the user explicitly says yes. Otherwise hand off to `/money-strategy iterate`.

This protects against the most common pattern in multi-product operators: opening `/money-discover` out of habit when the actual question is "where do I take this existing product next".

## Phase 1: User Context

The rest: https://github.com/iamzifei/show-me-the-money/blob/HEAD/skills/money-discover/SKILL.md