By peter_lzh 4 Hardcore Niche Skill Projects Worth Trying
01 nihaisha
If you or a family member is systematically studying the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) courses by Teacher Ni Haixia, this project is a “timely rain”!
It is a “skill pack” installed for an AI assistant (such as Claude Code). Its core is organizing the massive course materials from Teacher Ni (Shanghan Lun, JinKui Yao Lue, Zhenjiu Dacheng, and more) into a precisely searchable knowledge base.
You no longer flip through videos and notes. Just chat with your AI: “Use nihaisha to help me organize the difference between Taiyang wind stroke and Taiyang cold damage,” or “Look up the blackboard screenshot related to Xiao Chai Hu Tang,” and it finds the answer from the lecture transcripts, notes, and even screenshot evidence, telling you the source. It can even help build a review plan and compare formulas.
It is most suited to TCM learners and enthusiasts for knowledge management and course review. But remember, it is only a learning tool and must never be used to diagnose or prescribe for yourself or others!
02 mathVideoMaker
This project is super cool! It is a skill that lets AI generate both a “math explanation video” and an “interactive web page” at once. You just tell the AI your need, for example “explain the equation 5 times box equals 4 times box plus 7 to elementary students,” and it uses the Manim animation library to generate a step-by-step derivation video (MP4), while also producing an interactive HTML page with draggable sliders to adjust parameters.
The smartest part is its many “self-check” mechanisms, which ensure the generated video and web page have reasonable layout, clear formulas, and no misalignment even if the AI’s “eyesight” is poor.
For self-media creators and teachers making educational or popular-science content, this is a real efficiency booster! The video explains the thinking, the web page lets you practice, and the learning effect maxes out.
03 ky-design-to-html-skill
Front-end developers, or anyone who often needs to turn design drafts into pages, should look at this project!
This is not an “image generation” tool, but a “methodology” skill that teaches AI how to professionally and accurately turn UI screenshots or design drafts into HTML and CSS code.
The core is letting AI work in the right flow: first decompose the page structure, then separate image assets, set the canvas ratio, write code, screenshot to verify, and compare to correct. Through this “screenshot calibration” flow, restoration accuracy improves dramatically.
It suits quickly turning Landing Pages, SaaS dashboards, and similar drafts into static web pages.
04 zhengxi-views
For those who follow investing, especially people who like studying fund managers’ styles, this is a “hardcore” treasure. It is an AI skill built from the complete public real views of Zheng Xi, a fund manager at E Fund (Yi Fang Da), including quarterly reports, interviews, and notes. Its biggest feature is “never fabricate”: every answer must trace back to the original text.
You can ask “How does Zheng Xi view optical communications?” and it cites the original source and lays out the evolution of the view. Even better, it can use Zheng Xi’s own investment methodology, combined with real full-market fund data, to score any fund in “Zheng Xi style,” telling you how much “like a fund Zheng Xi would buy” it is.
It suits fund researchers and learners interested in investment strategy as an aid for studying and learning investment methods (again, not investment advice!).
Sources (search on GitHub): nihaisha, mathVideoMaker, ky-design-to-html-skill, zhengxi-views