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cold-start-motion

Designs the zero-to-one distribution motion: how a founder gets the first ~100 users when there is no audience, no budget, and no repeatable channel yet.

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From 0xF4ng/aether-growth-fieldwork · 48 skills · 5 · pushed 2026-07-17

What it does when it runs

Designs the zero-to-one distribution motion: how a founder gets the first ~100 users when there is no audience, no budget, and no repeatable channel yet. Names the minimum viable audience, picks the unscalable founder-led move to do first, then runs a cheap parallel channel test to find the one channel that compounds — and defines the threshold for graduating from hustle to a scalable motion. Use at pre-traction (0–~100 users/customers), for a brand-new product or a new segment with no existing demand, or when "build it and they will come" has produced silence.

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git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/0xF4ng/aether-growth-fieldwork.git /tmp/aether-growth-fieldwork
git -C /tmp/aether-growth-fieldwork sparse-checkout set "growth/cold-start-motion"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cold-start-motion
cp -R "/tmp/aether-growth-fieldwork/growth/cold-start-motion/." ~/.claude/skills/cold-start-motion/

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