From 0 to 9,205: Building a Skill Marketplace Overnight

ClawHub is the largest skill repository. Problem: no "export all" button.

So we crawl. 88 category keywords, hitting Search API for each. After deduplication: 9,205 unique skills.

Category system

10 hot categories + 20 other categories, bilingual, clustered from actual data.

Frontend handling 9000+

2.2MB JSON. Solution:

• Lazy loading + skeleton screens + pagination
• 21 cards per page (divisible by 3 columns)
• Two-zone layout: 2 large cards up top, 3-column grid below
• Three sort options: Trending / Downloads / Newest
• Inline SVG: no more broken CDN images

Top 20 skills get individual detail pages, dark theme, 1100px width, consistent with site style.

Timeline

• 21:00 — "Data load failed"
• 22:00 — Crawler done, 9,205 skills collected
• 00:00 — Categories, sorting, pagination live
• 02:00 — Detail pages, skeletons, SVG icons finished
• 03:00 — Deployed, refresh page

A complete skill marketplace, from zero to live.