What convinced you that people would pay for curated Agent Skills?
How Skillry changed, before and after.
Skillry put a price on curation.
A free catalog of curated Agent Skills Pro access from $9.99 a month
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Both images are Wayback captures of the same desktop homepage. The September 30 page adds a Pro banner and pricing sections while preserving the same core product framing.
01 / What changed
Skillry put a price on curation.
The September 23 homepage presents a curated Agent Skills catalog without a visible paid offer. By September 30, the same homepage promotes Pro access and lists monthly, yearly and founding lifetime plans.
BeforeA free catalog of curated Agent Skills
AfterPro access from $9.99 a month
The captures place the change between September 23 and September 30. They do not establish the exact launch time, what users bought, the revenue mix, or why Yihui chose these plans.
Turn taste into the product.
Skillry already promised curation with “Agent Skills with taste.” Our reading: paid access makes that judgment the thing customers buy, rather than treating the directory as a free collection. Yihui has not explained the monetization decision.
BeforeBrowse the curated catalog.
The product promise centers discovery and installation, with no visible paid offer on the captured homepage.
AfterSubscribe for full access.
Pro adds a monthly plan, a discounted yearly plan and a founding lifetime option.
What Yihui shared after the TrustMRR postYihui · Founder, Skillry
Oct 5, 2026
Skillry is just getting started.
Yihui amplified the revenue post, but did not explain the pricing decision. TrustMRR displayed $3,713 in trailing-30-day revenue and $1,301 MRR when checked on October 6. Those are different metrics.
Read the post on XWhat happened after the change?
THE OPEN QUESTION
Which plan drove the first revenue spike, and what did Yihui learn about charging for curation?
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About: What changed
Q&A · THE CONVERSATION
Ask Yihui about this change.
The story does not have to end here. What would help you learn from this decision?
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Questions
4Why offer monthly, yearly and founding lifetime access at the same time?
What stayed free, and what did you decide belongs in Premium?
How much of the first revenue came from recurring plans versus lifetime access?