crossing-the-chasm

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Product · Sub-category: product-misc

Navigate the technology adoption lifecycle from early adopters to mainstream market. Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", "tech go-to-market", "bowling pin strategy", "technology adoption lifecycle", or "pragmatist buyers". Also trigger when a startup has early traction but struggles to grow beyond initial users, or when planning go-to-market for technical products. Covers D-Day analogy, bowling-pin strategy, and positioning against incumbents. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For new market creation, see blue-ocean-strategy.

What this skill does

crossing-the-chasm is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", "tech go-to-market", "bowling pin strategy", "technology adoption lifecycle", or "pragmatist buyers".

Who uses this skill

The crossing-the-chasm skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\wondelai-crossing-the-chasm\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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