Yihui

Yihui Overview

Yihui (熠辉), known online as @yihui_indie, is an independent full-stack developer, product creator, and AI coding educator. He describes having approximately ten years of web development experience and currently focuses on the intersection of AI, video creation, and coding agents.^[1][2]

His portfolio includes reusable Agent Skills, AI-powered video production tools, anime generation software, developer education, and open-source projects. A recurring theme is turning practical workflows into products that other developers and creators can use.^[1]

His best-documented commercial project is Skillry. TrustMRR identifies Yihui as its founder, lists a one-person team, and provides Stripe-verified revenue information.^[3]

What Yihui Built

Skillry is a curated Agent Skills library focused on improving the quality of AI-generated websites, presentations, images, and videos. Its distinguishing feature is the ability to preview concrete outputs before installing a Skill. The catalog supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other compatible agents.^[4][5]

MkBoard is a desktop storyboard agent for content creators. It analyzes scripts, separates A-roll and B-roll, plans shots, and generates editable visual assets. Rather than treating video generation as a single irreversible operation, it maintains a structured project that creators can continue modifying.^[6]

MkAnime is an AI anime creation platform covering story development, scripts, storyboards, characters, video generation, dubbing, and episode production. It supports iterative scene generation and character consistency across multiple shots.^[7]

Happy AI Coding provides project-based AI programming education for beginners. The curriculum covers websites, browser extensions, mobile applications, backend services, and AI agents. It emphasizes practical development using Cursor and Claude Code rather than requiring students to learn traditional programming before attempting projects.^[2]

Yihui also maintains YH ChatCut Video Skills, an MIT-licensed collection of Agent Skills for editable ChatCut video production and timestamp-accurate subtitle generation.^[8]

His Awesome Opus 5.5 Videos repository catalogs AI-generated motion graphics, animations, interactive scenes, and their original prompts. The project connects public examples with live recreations available through Skillry.^[9]

How Yihui Builds

Yihui describes a workflow that begins with a practical problem, develops a working product, and then extracts reusable components, documentation, or Agent Skills.^[1]

Skillry demonstrates this approach through an output-first production process. The team designs a finished visual result, packages the instructions and supporting resources into a Skill, tests the workflow, and maintains it as underlying agents evolve.^[4]

The implementation also emphasizes portability. Skillry provides an installation CLI, browser-based authorization, and documented installation paths for different AI coding agents.^[10]

MkBoard demonstrates a complementary approach: maintain structured, editable project state while integrating external coding agents. Its release history documents integrations with Claude Code and Codex for modifying scripts, manipulating storyboard cells, and importing generated frames.^[11]

His open-source video Skills additionally document external dependencies, credential handling, data transmission, and review checkpoints.^[8]

Business Model

Yihui operates products with different monetization structures rather than relying on a single software category.^{[12][13][14][2]}

Skillry combines free Skills with paid access to its Premium library. Customers can choose recurring subscriptions or a founding lifetime plan. Premium access includes ongoing updates and new qualifying Skills.^[12]

TrustMRR independently displays Skillry's recurring subscription metrics and cumulative receipts using a connected Stripe verification mechanism. The figures recorded in this profile represent a dated snapshot, not a projection of future performance.^[3]

MkBoard offers a limited free tier and a paid Pro membership with additional projects and generation credits.^[13]

MkAnime uses subscription plans that allocate credits for image, video, and related AI generation operations.^[14]

Happy AI Coding monetizes structured educational content through paid course access, while Yihui's public video Skills and example repositories provide freely accessible technical resources.^[2][8][9]

Timeline

Lessons

1. Productize repeatable workflows. Skillry packages specific production techniques into reusable assets rather than asking customers to recreate complex instructions every time.^[5]

2. Demonstrate results before purchase. Previewable outputs and accessible free Skills help users understand what a workflow produces before deciding whether they need Premium access.^[4][12]

3. Preserve control over AI output. MkBoard organizes generated materials into editable shots instead of assuming the first generated result should be final.^[6]

4. Treat Agent Skills as maintainable software. Document dependencies, execution boundaries, credential requirements, and possible side effects. Yihui's public ChatCut Skills illustrate how these considerations can be made explicit.^[8]

5. Connect education with actual development. Happy AI Coding teaches through practical projects, while Yihui's public repositories expose working examples and reusable implementation techniques.^[2][1]

Further Reading

• Claude Code in the AI IDE List directory
• Cursor in the AI IDE List directory
• Codex CLI in the AI IDE List directory