How much does Skillry make, and how?

Yihui (@yihui_indie) is a solo founder, by the TrustMRR profile. Country CN on that profile, founder-provided, not verified. Team size on the profile is 1 person, also founder-provided, not verified. Skillry is a library of Skills: add-on instruction packs for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. You preview real outputs, then install from the site or a command line. There are free Skills and a paid plan. Monthly recurring revenue, often shortened to MRR, means the subscription total for one month. It is not a full year of takings, and it is not profit. Founded 8 Aug 2026. Started Aug 2026.

1. 8 Aug 2026: founded (TrustMRR profile).
2. Aug 2026: $27 of revenue that month.
3. Sep 2026: $1,608.
4. 17 Oct 2026: $2,716 a month, an earlier reading of the same Stripe feed, read by ProofOfIncome on 17 Oct 2026.
5. Oct 2026: $12,216 for the month.
6. 28 Oct 2026: the founder's X article, as quoted by readers the same day, said the product launched a month ago, with 400+ active paid subscriptions, $12,037 in the last 30 days, and $3,918 a month. We could not open the article body itself.
7. 1 Nov 2026: the founder pointed to Chinese-language posts on X and Xiaohongshu, plus YouTube, Threads and SEO (founder post; TrustMRR marketing channels).
8. 2 Nov 2026: $4,297 a month. Stripe-verified (TrustMRR). The same reading shows 433 active subscriptions. The feed was synced at 00:13 UTC. Last 30 days revenue $11,563, which includes one-time Founding Lifetime purchases at $169. All-time revenue $14,164.

About $4,297 a month in subscriptions after under 3 months. The larger last-30-days figure of $11,563 includes one-time lifetime purchases that will not repeat, so the monthly subscription figure is the steadier number. The figure is gross revenue, before costs. An audience of about 64,000 followers, on the revenue profile, is a big head start. Prices vary with promotions, and the current half-price offer may lower the average price per subscriber.

Claim versus proof: the claim, as quoted by readers, was $3,918 a month on 28 Oct 2026. The checked figure on 2 Nov 2026 is $4,297 a month. The claim holds. Payment data is a bit higher 5 days later.

Sources:

• TrustMRR: Skillry (Stripe-verified, synced 2 Nov 2026)
• Yihui on X, 28 Oct 2026, as quoted by readers
• Yihui on X, pricing (2 Nov 2026)
• Yihui on X, channels (1 Nov 2026)
• Skillry website

Why "Verified": the headline comes from Stripe through TrustMRR, an owner-authorized API key, synced on 2 Nov 2026. The figure is gross revenue, before costs. It is not listed for sale.

• ✅ Verified: $4,297 a month on 2 Nov 2026. An earlier checked reading was $2,716 a month on 17 Oct 2026. The 2 Nov reading is 433 subscriptions.
• 🟡 Claimed: $3,918 a month on 28 Oct 2026, as quoted by readers of the founder's X article. We could not open the article body itself.
• 🟡 Claimed: $12,037 in the last 30 days on 28 Oct 2026, as quoted by readers, plus 400+ active paid subscriptions. The checked last-30-days figure on 2 Nov 2026 is $11,563 and includes one-time purchases.

A short answer is on Is Skillry's revenue real?.

1. Package a taste you already have as reusable instructions for AI coding agents.
2. Let people preview a real output before they pay.
3. Charge a small subscription, and expect the first customers to come from people who already listen to you.

• Skills: a sense of what looks good, and the ability to write it as instructions
• Audience needed: yes. This launch rode a large existing audience. Without an audience, first customers are likely to come slowly
• Budget needed: low, a website plus Stripe

• The last-30-days total includes one-time lifetime purchases that will not repeat.
• A half-price promotion runs until 30 Nov 2026 and may lower the average price per subscriber.
• Gross revenue only. Costs are not shown.
• The audience is a head start. The same library with no audience would not show this number.
• One-person operation and the country on the profile are the founder's statements, not checked facts.
• The 28 Oct article is cited as quoted by readers. We could not open the article body itself.