Bassam Nouh

Stop drowning in 300+ AI tools. I built the AI Stack Picker — answer 3 questions, get the 2–3 AI tools that actually fit what you do, how technical you are, and your budget. Free, no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

You can watch the YouTube video about this here:

youtu.be/B9QzWg952eY?si=pTYLdOk493WqbVkO

Which AI Tools Do You Actually Need? I Built a Free Tool for That

Stop drowning in 300+ AI tools. I built the AI Stack Picker — answer 3 questions, get the 2–3 AI tools that actually fit what you do, how technical you are, and your budget. Free, no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

In this video you watch the whole thing get built and shipped — with AI — from a blank file to a live URL: the 3-question flow, the curation logic that makes it useful, the real bug that broke it on a real input (and the fix), and the 30-second deploy to Vercel.

🔥 WHAT IS THE AI STACK PICKER?
The AI Stack Picker is a free web tool by Build Leaner (Bassam Nouh) that recommends a short, personal AI stack — 2–3 tools instead of 300 — based on your use case (write, build, automate, design, research, or customer support), your skill level, and your budget. It runs on curated human judgment, not an affiliate-bait tool list, and you can use it without creating an account.

🔥 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
👉  How to choose AI tools: the only 3 questions that matter (use case, skill, budget)
👉  How to build a working web tool with AI instead of hand-coding it
👉  Why most AI demos never become shipped products — and the "last 20%" that fixes it
👉  How to deploy a single-file tool to Vercel in under a minute

Non-technical and want to build with AI?

Ignore 90% of the advice online — it's written for engineers.

Start here:
→ Lovable or Replit to build
→ Zapier to connect
→ Claude to think
→ Canva to design
4 tools.

You can ship a real thing this weekend with just these.

What are you trying to build?

24 hours since the Stack Picker launched.

347 people used it. Most common use case: "I have an idea but don't know which tech stack to use." Most common stack it gave: Lovable / Claude Code / n8n. Funniest feedback: "It made a decision faster than my co-founder."

Still free, still no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

Already building #2. What should it be?

Tomorrow the AI Stack Picker goes live.

3 questions → the 2–3 AI tools that actually matter for what you do. Free, no signup to use it. Built in a week, in public, for ~$0.

Today I killed one last bug: it broke for anyone who picked "customer support." Classic — the edge case I didn't test.

Want early access? Reply "stack" 👇

What's the thing you STILL do by hand that a machine should've taken over years ago? 👇

Day 3 of the Stack Picker. Hit a wall.

My first version recommended the same "safe" tools to everyone. Useless. A picker that always says "ChatGPT + Zapier" isn't a picker.

Fix: it now branches on how technical you are. Non-technical → no-code. Dev → the powerful stuff. Small change, whole thing got better.

When did "more options" last actually help you?

NOW HIRING (apparently): Full-Time Email Re-Typer. No experience required. You already have the job.

Let me read you the description, because you applied without noticing.

ROLE: Manually retype the same ~30 messages every working day. The thank-you. The intro. The "just circling back." The "sounds good, let's set it up." Type each one from scratch, every time, as if you've never seen it before.

HOURS: ~4 per week, indefinitely. Roughly 11 working days a year.

COMPENSATION: Paid entirely in exhaustion. Bonus structure: a vague sense at 6 PM that you were busy all day but can't say doing what.

REQUIRED SKILLS: The ability to ignore that a computer could do this instantly. A high tolerance for typing "hope you're doing well" while feeling nothing.

CAREER GROWTH: None. The job is identical in year five.

—

Here's the thing. You're overqualified for this role. You were hired for something else — the actual work, the thinking, the stuff only you can do. But this little copy-typist job got bolted on so quietly that you forgot it's optional.

So consider this your two-weeks' notice. To yourself.

The replacement is free, starts in 60 seconds, and never gets tired. You write each message once, turn it into a shortcut, and from then on it types itself — a few letters, the whole thing appears. When a new kind of message comes up, you describe it and AI drafts it.

You don't lose the job. You get promoted — back to the work you were actually hired to do.

The Re-Typer position is now vacant. Leave it that way.

→ keytext.app (free)

What's the most absurd task you do by hand that a machine should've taken over years ago? Let's write the job posting for it together.

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