Bassam Nouh

Everyone's hunting for a better prompt.

The prompt is rarely the problem. The missing context is.

Same question, no context: a generic answer you have to rewrite.
Same question, plus 6 lines about you: usable on the first try.

You are the input that's missing.

watch the full tutorial video:

youtu.be/OKwV70gq9go

ChatGPT agrees with almost everything you say.

That is not politeness, it is the product working as designed.

This is the one page of custom instructions I use to
turn that off, block by block, plus where to paste it in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

The page itself, free (my filled version + a blank template + the 50 prompts):
youtu.be/OKwV70gq9go

#ChatGPT #CustomInstructions #AIforBusiness #solopreneur #promptengineering

ChatGPT agrees with almost everything you say.

That is not politeness, it is the product working as designed.

This is the one page of custom instructions I use to
turn that off, block by block, plus where to paste it in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

full video:
youtu.be/OKwV70gq9go

The page itself, free (my filled version + a blank template + the 50 prompts):
(link in the first comment)

#ChatGPT #CustomInstructions #AIforBusiness #solopreneur #promptengineering

Don't tell AI to "write like me." Show it.

5 of your OWN sent emails → ask for the rules, not a summary → paste those
rules into every prompt after that.

This is the step everyone skips.

#chatgpt #aiemail #promptengineering #aitools #productivity

Every productivity tool promises you hours. KeyText is the one that counts them.

Every time a snippet fires, KeyText logs the time you didn't spend typing — and shows you the weekly and monthly total, plus which shortcuts are actually earning it.

2.3 hours this week. 9.1 this month. That's 109 hours a year — almost three working weeks — from the same job, the same inbox, and the same standards. Just without the retyping.

Free on Chrome: 15 snippets, 3 folders, every integration, 50 AI actions/month. Pro $5/mo for unlimited snippets and 2,500 AI actions. Team $4/seat/mo with shared libraries.

👉 keytext.app/?ref=youtube

Install it today, then check your number on Friday — and post it below. I want to see who wins week one.

#Productivity #TimeManagement #AITools #ProductivityTools #WorkSmarter #TextExpander #RemoteWork #DeepWork #ChromeExtension #FutureOfWork #KeyText #Shorts

We stopped fighting about chores because of a link 🔗

One shared week, live between two phones.

He checks off trash — it ticks on mine.

No more "you never told me." Free (and cheaper than couples counseling) at keyweek.app.

Tag the person you'd share a week with 👀

couples calendar, chore chart, shared calendar app, relationship hacks, weekly planner, keyweek, living together, shared to do list, household management, real time sync

#shorts #couples #adulting #aigenerated #keytext #salesproductivity #TimeManagement #productivityhacks #ClientManagement #WorkSmarter #weeklyplanner #LifeHacks #Entrepreneurship #productivity #KeyText #shorts #wellbeingmatters #AItextexpanderalternative

Six phrases to ban in your AI email prompt. Every one of them is something

AI reaches for and no human has ever said.

Paste them under "Never use:" in your prompt

You don't have a content problem. You have a repurposing problem.

One screen recording of real work becomes:
1 long video
3 vertical clips from the moments you already said something sharp
1 newsletter, same structure
5 posts, one per lesson
1 template of whatever you built on screen

Record once. Publish for two weeks.

The build I ran through this exact pipeline is free, link in the first comment.

What's the last thing you made that you only published once?

AI comparison that won't be wrong in 6 weeks #chatgpt #claude #tools

Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers.

Those change every six weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.

Watch the full video:
youtu.be/2Xij4hPytUs

⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/

📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
buildleaner.com/

Our apps/websites:
keytext.app/
keyweek.app/
keytext.net/
… more to come, keep following.

#ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #AItools #solopreneur #smallbusiness

Which one are you paying for, and is it earning it? 👇



Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers. Those change every six
weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices
verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.

⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/

📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
buildleaner.com/

Choosing the best AI subscription for $20 a month is harder than it looks.

This breakdown compares Claude Pro, Google AI Pro, and ChatGPT Plus to see which service offers the most value for your specific workflow. We look past the chatbot features to analyze the included cloud storage and integration benefits that actually matter for your daily tasks.

Watch to see which tool fits your budget and needs before you commit to a monthly plan.

Hi {FIRST_NAME}" is why nobody replied.
KeyText snippets take smart variables — {{first_name}}, {{company}}, {{today}}, {{tomorrow}} — so one template writes two hundred genuinely personal messages. Type /intro, hit Enter, and the blanks fill themselves. Tab between anything left over.
Works in Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Outlook, HubSpot, Notion, and every text field on the web.
Free on Chrome — 15 snippets, 3 folders, every integration, 50 AI actions/month.
👉 keytext.app/?ref=youtube
What's the most obviously-a-template email you've ever received? I'll go first in the comments.


#SalesTips #ColdEmail #Productivity #TextExpander #AITools #Recruiting #LinkedInTips #EmailMarketing #ChromeExtension #WorkSmarter #KeyText #Shorts
#salestips #coldemail #productivity #recruiting #linkedintips #textexpander #aitools #emailmarketing #chromeextension #b2bsales #outreach #worksmarter #keytext
#salestips #coldemail #productivityhack #aitool #corporatelife
#SalesTips #ColdEmail #Recruiting #Productivity #KeyText
#sales #aigenerated

You've written the same reply 400 times. Forty-five seconds each. Thirty times a week. That's 19 hours a year — on one message.
KeyText turns it into three keystrokes. Type /thx in Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Outlook, or any text field on the web, hit Enter, and the full message drops in. Two seconds instead of forty-five.
Free on Chrome — 15 snippets, every integration, and 50 AI actions a month, no credit card.
👉 Install: keytext.app/?ref=youtube
Which message do you retype the most? Tell me and I'll write the snippet for you in the comments.

#productivity #productivityhack #textexpander #aitools #chromeextension #gmailtips #emailtips #worksmarter #remotework #salestips #workflow #timesaver #keytext

Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers.

Those change every six weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.

Watch the full video:

youtu.be/2Xij4hPytUs

⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/

📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
[newsletter link]

Our apps/websites:

keytext.app/ 

keyweek.app/ 

keytext.net/ 

… more to come, keep following.

#ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #AItools #solopreneur #smallbusiness

A missed call is a customer dialing your competitor 30 seconds later.

Three nodes fix it:

Missed-call trigger → auto-SMS: "Sorry we missed you. What do you need?" → reply lands in your team inbox.

About 20 minutes to build in any automation. Then it runs forever.

Use it: you stop losing every after-hours lead.
Sell it: local businesses pay $750-1,500 to have it installed.

How many calls did your business miss last week?

Your AI agrees with everything you write. That's why the output is useless.

Paste this at the top of any chat:

"Be blunt. If my draft is weak, say so first and say why. Do not soften, do not flatter. Never invent numbers, prices, or sources. If you're not certain, write [uncertain] next to the claim."

Four lines. Completely different tool.

What's the last thing AI told you was "great" that wasn't?

The scariest thing in your inbox isn't the hard email. It's the blinking cursor on the easy one.

You know the reply you're avoiding. It's not complicated. You know what you want to say. But the blank compose box just… sits there. You'll do it after this meeting. After lunch. Tomorrow.

Here's what I finally realized: the tax isn't the writing. It's the starting. Facing an empty box, from zero, forty times a day, quietly drains more energy than the actual work.

So I stopped starting from zero. Now I type a shortcut and the full draft is already there — I just change a line and send. The reply I would've put off until 4pm takes four seconds at 9am.

Turns out I never had a discipline problem. I had a blank-screen problem.

What's the easy email you weirdly keep putting off? 👇

I was running 4 apps to send the same emails every day.

A notes app for snippets. A Google Doc of templates. A clipboard manager. A ChatGPT tab for anything new.

Four tools. One boring job: replying to messages I'd already written a hundred times.

Last month I deleted the whole stack. Now it's one shortcut key — I type a few letters and the full message appears. Something new? AI drafts it right there. About 3 hours a week back.

New video breaks down the exact setup and how to rebuild it in an afternoon.

What's the most ridiculous app-juggling you do just to get one simple thing done? 👇

Link in the comments.

#Productivity #AITools #TextExpander #WorkSmarter #Automation

The first version of my new tool gave everyone identical advice: "research your options, start small."

Technically correct. Completely useless.

One prompt rule fixed it — and the plans went from beige to scary-specific.

The rule (and the full build) is in the video 👇

What's the worst "it depends" advice you've ever gotten?

Stop trying to be more productive.

I mean it.

The entire productivity industry is a 100-year-old answer to a problem that doesn't exist anymore — it's all built on doing the same work faster.

But the highest-leverage move isn't doing repetitive work faster. 

It's not doing it at all. 

I'm going to show you the difference between productivity and elimination, and why the second one quietly hands you back hours the first one never will.

Your idea is 6 months old.

Someone with a worse version of it already shipped.

The difference wasn't talent, money, or time. It was knowing exactly what to do on Day 1.

I built a free tool that tells you that in 10 seconds — and filmed the entire build 👇 [link]

What's the idea you've been sitting on?

Your AI Idea Deserves a Real Plan. This Tool Builds It in Seconds.

Watch the full walkthrough shipping:
lnkd.in/egJXWEvq

You Have an Idea. This Free AI Tool Tells You Exactly Where to Start.

Where do you actually start with AI? Type your idea, pick your skill level, and this free tool gives you a blunt 5-step plan to ship the first version in one week — one step per day, one path, no "it depends." In this video, I build the whole thing from scratch and ship it live: the UI, the AI planning engine, the bug that made every plan generic (and the fix), and the free deploy.

▸ Try it free (no signup): lnkd.in/enh2qAdn
▸ Get your plan emailed + one AI build to steal every week: lnkd.in/eikdQctz

If you're a beginner wondering how to start building with AI, the answer in this video is — pick ONE idea, pick ONE tool for your skill level, and ship the smallest real version in 5 days. The tool decides those steps for you.

WHAT I USED
· One HTML file (no framework) — Claude for the build
· An LLM planning engine behind a locked-down system prompt
· Cloudflare Workers (free) to keep the API key off the page
· MailerLite for the email-me-my-plan step

How-to · steal-able thread:
How to actually start with AI when you're overwhelmed — the 3-day version 🧵 (no course, save this)


Step 1: pick ONE annoying task you do weekly. Just one. Write it down. That's your target — not "use AI more."

Step 2: open ONE tool built for that task (free tier). 30 minutes making it do that one thing. Badly is fine.

Step 3: do the task WITH the tool, for real, once. Notice what it saved. That's it — you're "using AI" now.


Most people try to learn everything and start nothing. One task, one tool, three days. What's your one task (or project)?

Build #2 starts today.

The Stack Picker tells you WHICH tools. The next one answers the question right after: "okay… now where do I actually start?"

Thinking: a tool that turns "I have an idea" into a concrete first-week build plan. Building it in public, same as last time.

Would you use that? What would you ask it?

Build #2 starts today.

The Stack Picker tells you WHICH tools. The next one answers the question right after: "okay… now where do I actually start?"

Thinking: a tool that turns "I have an idea" into a concrete first-week build plan. Building it in public, same as last time.

Would you use that? What would you ask it?

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.

#Productivity #FutureOfWork #Automation #CareerGrowth #WorkSmarter