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🔬 Product Teardown Skill

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Reverse-engineer any product as a system — and get a bilingual, print-ready HTML report. In one shot.

A Principal-PM-level product-teardown skill. Point it at any product (Linear, Notion, Cursor, Perplexity…) and it reverse-engineers the thing as a system — loops, strategy, moat, opportunities — then renders the analysis as a bilingual (EN + ZH), print-ready HTML report with an embedded product-screenshot gallery. Not a "5 things I like about this app" review. A structural read of why the product wins, where it leaks, and what the next move should be.

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How it works — just 2 steps

Invoke the skill with anything like "teardown Linear" / "break down Notion" / "analyze Cursor" and it runs the same flow every time:

1. Chat response — full teardown in 11 sections (Snapshot → Users & JTBD → Core Loop → Architecture → UX Quality → Business Model → Growth → AI Readiness → Friction → Opportunities → Final PM Verdict).
2. HTML report auto-generates — two cross-linked files (EN + ZH, toggle in the bottom-right), saved to ~/Desktop/Claude skills/product-teardown-<slug>-{en,zh}-<yyyymm>.html. Print-optimized (Cmd+P → clean PDF).

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Teardown Report · the 11-section spine

Every run ends with two single-file HTML reports at ~/Desktop/Claude skills/. Fixed 11-section spine, plus a product-tour gallery:

#	Section	What it answers
—	Product Tour	6 screenshots pulled from the product's own og:image marketing assets.
1	Snapshot	One-line pitch · category · stage · pricing · notable numbers.
2	Users & JTBD	Who hires this product, and for what job — including the replaced alternative.
3	Core Loop	The atomic user loop that makes the product habit-forming (or doesn't).
4	Architecture	Object model · surfaces · integrations · what's a primitive vs a feature.
5	UX Quality	Signature interactions, latency, information density, empty states.
6	Business Model	Monetization vector · unit economics · expansion path (PLG / sales / hybrid).
7	Growth	Acquisition loops · virality vector · retention hooks · notable moats.
8	AI Readiness	Assistive / Embedded / Autonomous — placed on the spectrum with evidence.
9	Friction	Where the product leaks — onboarding, mid-funnel, power-user ceiling.
10	Opportunities	3–5 concrete next-move bets (features, wedges, adjacencies).
11	Final PM Verdict	The one sentence a Principal PM would write on the internal doc.

Reports are print-optimized (Cmd+P → clean PDF) and cross-linked EN ↔ ZH via a bottom-right language switcher.

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Example output · Linear teardown

product-teardown-linear-en-202607.html + -zh- counterpart · cross-linked EN / ZH switcher · 6-image product tour · 11-section deep dive.

TL;DR + key metrics	Users & JTBD	Core Product Loop
Competitor Landscape	AI / Future Readiness	Metrics · North Star + Guardrails

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