Clone Any App With Claude, Fixes Included
A free set of Claude tools that studies a competitor's app, finds what users hate about it, and helps you build your own improved version.
A kit that studies your competition so you can build something better
Someone just released a free set of 11 tools for Claude — the AI assistant — that walk you through rebuilding a competitor's product from scratch. Not copying their code (that would be illegal), but studying what they've built from the outside: their design, their structure, their public pages.
The part that stuck with me is called the Entrepreneur skill. It reads the user reviews of whatever app you're looking at — the real ones, on app stores and review sites — and specifically hunts for complaints. Then it bakes the fixes to those complaints into your version before you even start building.
Think about that. Instead of guessing what your market wants, you're reading 500 frustrated customers telling you exactly what the existing solution gets wrong.
The whole thing is free, takes no account to set up, and was downloaded by nearly a thousand people in its first week. The developer crowd clearly saw something in it.
For a founder or business owner, the interesting part isn't the tech. It's the idea: you can now do structured competitive research — the kind consultants charge for — and turn it directly into a build brief, without a big team.
Words worth knowing
Claude — An AI assistant made by Anthropic. You talk to it in plain English and it helps you think, write, research, or build things.
Skill (in this context) — A small set of instructions you give Claude that teaches it how to do a specific job, like a recipe card for a task.
Open source — Software where the recipe is public and free. Anyone can use it, study it, or improve it.
MIT licensed — A particular type of open-source permission that basically says: do whatever you want with this, no strings attached.
If you've ever wished you could hand someone the top 200 one-star reviews of your main competitor and say fix these — this is closer to that than anything I've seen before.
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