Preface

The common workflow for cross-border sellers when selecting products involves opening platform best-seller lists to filter categories, searching for similar items on 1688 to compare prices, using paid tools to check market saturation and profitability, and finally organizing a pile of screenshots and links into a spreadsheet. Information is scattered across four different tools, and the final decision often relies on gut feeling. Shuoruan · Cross-border E-commerce Product Selection Assistant (hereinafter referred to as “this Skill”) brings this funnel into a single conversation: you provide the platform and category, and it generates an Excel product selection sheet. Each row represents a product, featuring the product image, dimensions, price range, five-dimension score, estimated gross margin, 1688 sourcing link, and product testing suggestions.

What is this

This Skill is produced by the enterprise account “Shuoruan” and published in the SkillHub directory. The current version is 1.1.3, categorized under business-ops, and tagged as “No API Key Required.” It is positioned as an automation assistant for cross-border product selection and category competitor research, targeting sellers on Amazon / TEMU / Shein / TikTok Shop, foreign trade factories transitioning to cross-border e-commerce, and operations personnel needing to survey competitors. It does not replace product selection decisions; instead, it completes the intermediate steps from “track screening to testing suggestions,” with results delivered directly in Excel for manual review.

Core Functions

Below is an introduction to its actual outputs, all of which are capabilities listed on the official page.

Excel Master Selection Sheet

One product per row. Columns include: Product Image, Product/Packaging Dimensions, Price Range, Five-Dimension Score, Estimated Gross Margin, Sourcing Link, and Testing Suggestions. A single view provides material ready for product selection review.

Five-Dimension Weighted Scoring Model

Scores are calculated across five dimensions: Demand, Competition, Profit, Compliance, and Differentiation. Weights are adjusted based on platform characteristics: Amazon emphasizes Competition, TEMU emphasizes Profit, and TikTok Shop emphasizes Content Differentiation. Results are colored red, yellow, and green, corresponding to four tiers: “Go All-in,” “Test,” “Watch,” and “Drop,” facilitating quick trade-offs.

1688 Real Supply Tracking

Sourcing reference prices include direct links to 1688 product pages. Clicking allows you to verify tiered wholesale prices and order tiers, taking the median price for similar items rather than rough estimates. When reliable sources cannot be found, it marks them honestly without fabricating numbers.

Honest Estimation System

All data comes from public web information: platform rankings, frontend prices, reviews, and Google Trends. Each item is marked with its source and confidence level; information that cannot be retrieved is explicitly marked as a “Data Gap” without filling in unsourced data.

Zero Threshold

No registration, no API Key, and no paid selection tools like Jungle Scout or SellerSprite required; ready to use upon installation. This determines its cost structure and data accuracy ceiling: it can obtain rankings and frontend prices, but not backend real sales volume.

Installation and Activation

This Skill is published based on the universal SKILL.md format and indexed in the SkillHub directory with the coordinate @org-rkajh0uy/shuoruan-ecommerce-product-research. Official materials do not provide specific installation commands or configuration file fields, so none are fabricated here. Please refer to the official pages for access methods:

  • SkillHub Page: https://www.skillhub.cn/skills/org-rkajh0uy/shuoruan-ecommerce-product-research
  • API Address: https://api.skillhub.cn/org-rkajh0uy/shuoruan-ecommerce-product-research

Since it does not require an API Key, there are no authentication or environment variable configurations to fill in after activation; it can be triggered directly via conversation.

Typical Usage

This Skill has two output modes, selected based on research depth.

Quick Scan, suitable for 15-minute level opportunity screening:

  1. Provide platform and category, e.g., “TEMU, Pet Travel.”
  2. Output preliminary results for 5–8 opportunities, each with product image, price range, and five-dimension score.
  3. Select 1–2 items to proceed to the deep dive based on this.

Deep Report, suitable for specific products that have already been shortlisted:

  1. Define candidate products or a specific sub-category.
  2. Output complete assessment: Profit model, negative review pain point analysis, compliance check, and product testing stop-loss lines.
  3. Include 1688 sourcing links for manual price verification before deciding whether to order samples.

The official trigger words are: 选品 (Product Selection), 外贸选品 (Foreign Trade Selection), 跨境电商选品 (Cross-border Selection), 产品调研 (Product Research), product research. Simply use these words in a conversational tool that supports Skill invocation to summon the corresponding mode.

Applicable Scenarios and Notes

Suitable for: Product selection for Amazon / TEMU / Shein / TikTok Shop cross-border sellers; initial product selection for foreign trade factories transitioning to cross-border e-commerce; competitor surveying for specific categories requiring a structured comparison table.

Points to note:

  1. Data accuracy is limited by public information. Five-dimension scores and estimated gross margins are based on rankings, frontend prices, reviews, and Google Trends, excluding real platform backend sales or advertising data. Manual review is recommended before formal testing.
  2. 1688 links are reference sources, not orders. Tiered prices, tiers, and inventory change over time; click the link to re-verify before making decisions.
  3. Scoring weights are prior settings based on platform characteristics. Special categories (strong compliance, strong seasonality, strong IP attributes) may cause distortion; use with common sense regarding the category.
  4. Installation commands are not listed in official materials. Before purchasing, confirm the access method and current version on the official page (1.1.3 in the materials).

Conclusion

The value of this Skill lies not in making decisions for you, but in automating the scattered information collection and organization steps within the selection funnel: one conversation yields an Excel sheet with images, scores, and sourcing links, with red/yellow/green ratings directly indicating what is worth pursuing and what should be watched. For cross-border sellers and factories that do not want to pay for selection tools but want a traceable research process, it is a low-cost starting point.

Official Address: https://api.skillhub.cn/org-rkajh0uy/shuoruan-ecommerce-product-research