Top 6 AI marketing skills for people trying to sell something
A Hacker News thread asked a blunt question: has anyone gotten AI agents to make money on their own? Another floated the idea of an AI agent that must make money to stay alive, and a third asked for the best AI tools to turn an idea into an MVP. The honest reading of those threads: nobody showed an agent that earns on autopilot. What people do get is help with the slow parts of selling: writing the page, getting found, setting a price, and following up.
So this list is not a promise of income. It is six free, open-source skills that do real marketing work when you give them real facts about your product. Each entry says what the skill does, who it is good for, and one honest catch from its own files. Results are not measured here; you still need a product people want.
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1. copywriting
copywriting (MIT licence, by Corey Haines) asks about your business and the page you need, then returns headlines, section copy and button text written to get people to act.
Good for: founders who can build the product but stare at a blank homepage. It is a fast first draft for a landing page or pricing page.
Catch: it writes claims as confidently as you feed them. A person still has to check every number and promise on the page before it goes live.
2. seo-geo
seo-geo (MIT, by AgriciDaniel) is about getting your content picked up by Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT web search and Perplexity, the field people call GEO. It checks AI crawler access, llms.txt, brand mentions, and how quotable each passage is.
Good for: anyone whose buyers now ask ChatGPT or Perplexity instead of searching Google.
Catch: the skill itself quotes Google saying that optimizing for AI search is still SEO. Treat it as good page hygiene, not a ranking switch.
3. landing-page-generator
landing-page-generator (MIT, by alirezarezvani) builds a landing page as complete Next.js/React components with Tailwind CSS: hero, feature grid, pricing table, FAQ, testimonials and call to action.
Good for: testing an idea with a real page in an afternoon, before you build the whole product.
Catch: you get code, not a live site. You still need to deploy it yourself, and you should replace any placeholder testimonials with real ones or remove them.
4. pricing-strategy
pricing-strategy (MIT, by mohitagw15856) structures pricing decisions for SaaS and digital products: packaging, tiers, and free versus paid.
Good for: the moment you have to put a number on the page and keep putting it off.
Catch: it is a thinking framework. It has no market price data, so bring your own competitor prices and customer conversations.
5. email-marketing
email-marketing (MIT, by kostja94) helps plan newsletters and email campaigns, and covers deliverability basics like SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your mail does not land in spam.
Good for: turning a list of signups into a simple welcome and follow-up plan.
Catch: it does not send anything. It drafts and plans; you still need a sending tool and your own list.
6. seo-local
seo-local (MIT, AgriciDaniel) audits local search: Google Business Profile, whether a business name, address and phone match across the web (NAP), citations, reviews and location pages.
Good for: freelancers and agencies selling to local shops, cafes and clinics, or owners doing it themselves.
Catch: it only fits businesses that serve a real place or service area. An online-only product gets little from it.
Where to start
If you have nothing yet, the order that makes sense is: pricing-strategy to decide what you sell and for how much, landing-page-generator plus copywriting for the page, then email-marketing for the people who sign up. Add seo-geo once you have pages worth citing, and seo-local only if you serve a place.
None of these skills will make money for you while you sleep, and no one in those threads showed one that does. What they remove is the blank page. The selling, the talking to customers and the judgement on what is true stay with you.