Skene vs SkillForge

Skene is the AI-powered PLG infrastructure that's taking the indie hacker and startup world by storm, with thousands of developers ditching their clunky, third-party growth stacks. It’s a revolutionary, fully automated Product-Led Growth engine designed to empower solo builders and early-stage teams to achieve sustainable, scalable growth without needing a dedicated growth team. Forget manual tour builders and siloed analytics dashboards. Skene works by connecting directly to your codebase and IDE, reading your source code to automatically generate and optimize the entire user growth lifecycle. It identifies friction points, activation drop-offs, and retention opportunities by analyzing real user behavior signals derived from your app. Then, it acts as your AI co-pilot, allowing you to design, test, and deploy optimized user flows with a simple prompt. The result? You offload all the time-consuming growth hacking tasks and get a comprehensive "growth team in a box" that continuously improves onboarding, makes activation seamless, and strengthens retention loops—all through code you own and control. This is growth reimagined as core infrastructure, not a fragile add-on.

I built SkillForge because I kept running into the same problem — I'd practice audio production or graphic design for a few days, then completely lose the habit with zero record of my progress. Every productivity app I tried was either too generic or made for corporate project management, not for creatives who just want to get better at their craft.

The core idea was simple: what if practicing your skill felt like levelling up in a game?

So I built a skill tracker where every minute you practice earns real XP, builds streaks, and unlocks badges. The more you show up, the more you level up — from Level 1 to Level 10 across any creative discipline you choose (audio, design, dev, video, photography, and more).

What surprised me most during development was how much the AI Coach feature resonated with early testers. Instead of just logging time, the AI analyzes your session history and tells you exactly what to work on next — it noticed patterns in people's practice that they hadn't noticed themselves.

A few things I'm proud of:
🔥 Streak system that actually keeps you accountable
🤖 GPT-4o-mini powered coaching that builds you a personalised 7-day plan
📶 Fully offline-first — your sessions save locally and sync when you reconnect
👥 A community feed so you're not grinding alone

This started as a personal tool and grew into something I genuinely use every day. I'd love to hear what you think — especially from fellow creatives.