Hi,

Last year, one of my activities was thinking about how to monetize my OSS products, and it is still a topic this year too. The software itself is free, so what could we sell? I guess documents for OSS can be info products. But people do not often buy OSS documents, right? My hypothesis is that when AI-assisted coding becomes more common, AI can buy info products to accomplish tasks. A human might confirm it, or they might not even notice.

Jotai Techniques

For such a future, I was planning to create "Jotai Techniques", which would be a collection of examples to showcase good uses of Jotai. It is kind of an experiment in how LLMs can utilize it. I also explored the use of MCP servers to provide the info product with authentication. Check out https://github.com/jotaijs/jotai-mcp-server.

Why it did not take off

However, the idea of "Jotai Techniques" never took off. There are several reasons.

For one, I am not good at writing docs, and I enjoy coding if I have time. Another is that I was not sure how to make a convincing case for this idea. I could try a small task with AI-assisted coding with and without "Jotai Techniques", and compare the results. But AI is evolving too fast, and the evaluation would get stale too soon. Lastly, it is still not the age where AI buys something behind the scenes. It will take more time.

Jotai Skills

So, I gave up this idea. Now that agent skills are getting popular, I think we should work on "Jotai Skills". That is very close to my original idea of "Jotai Techniques" last year, only partially though.

Unfortunately, I am not motivated to lead this project alone, so I decided to call for collaborators:
https://github.com/pmndrs/jotai/discussions/3221

I look forward to it.

Happy coding.