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"Lots of other skills" looks like object to me, but it is located at the front of the sentence. Is there any reason the speaker used like that?

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Rebecca

In this case, the speaker is omitting "there are" in the beginning because the rest of the sentence implies this. So the full version of this sentence would be "there are lots of other skills we can add on top." The expression "there are" indicates the presence of the objective "other skills" without making this the subject. The purpose of this is just to emphasize the object here. You can restructure this sentence to say, "we can add lots of other skills on top" to make the subject come first.

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