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writing-north-star-metrics

refoundai/lenny-skills

Help the user define their North Star metric using frameworks and insights from 27 product leaders.

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npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill writing-north-star-metrics
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About this skill
Help the user define their North Star metric using frameworks and insights from 27 product leaders. When the user asks for help with North Star metrics: Itamar Gilad: "The North Star metric measures how much value we create for the market. WhatsApp measured messages sent because every message is incremental value. Airbnb used nights booked." Select a metric that tracks core utility provided to the customer, not business extraction. Jess Lachs: "Retention is a terrible thing to goal on. It's almost impossible to drive in a meaningful way in a short term. Find a short-term metric you can measure that drives a long-term output." Identify proxy metrics that are sensitive to experimentation and correlate with long-term goals. Jess Lachs: "If people understand it, if they have an intuition around it, if it's something people can talk about across the company, it's going to be a much better metric than your made up composite score that nobody understands." Avoid composite metrics with complex coefficients.

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What does writing-north-star-metrics do?

Help the user define their North Star metric using frameworks and insights from 27 product leaders.

Is writing-north-star-metrics good?

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What agent does writing-north-star-metrics work with?

writing-north-star-metrics currently lists compatibility with codex, gemini-cli, opencode, cursor, github-copilot, claude-code.

What are alternatives to writing-north-star-metrics?

Skills in the same category include telegram-bot-builder, flutter-app-size, sharp-edges, iterative-retrieval.

How do I install writing-north-star-metrics?

npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill writing-north-star-metrics

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