Salim Batlouni

⚡️ I’m introducing Roughcut It transforms hours of video into minutes + automatically adds structure and meaningful titles dm for toy access cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

Weekly client meetings at Fluxon trained me for this: To think on my feet, speak honestly, and be fully present. That’s the growth I didn’t expect. And the moment I wrote the candidate’s name down with a smile.

As I answered, I noticed something else. I wasn’t pulling from notes. No script. No prep. Just a real, live conversation - and the clarity surprised me.

“Why did you leave product to join consulting?” A candidate asked me this mid-interview. I froze. Then surprised myself with the answer. 🧵

ChatGPT solving a bouldering problem from a photo 🤯

@AjPicard25 @framer I am

Anyone having issues with @framer right now?

@RikNieu I've been writing down a list of problems I face. Hasn't led to much, but it's a great muscle to practice. Then I discuss these problems with friends. So far they've laughed at them, but I'm excited to keep trying.

I think I'm going to create an annoyance list over the next few weeks. Every time something annoys me, on the list it goes Maybe if I do it consciously like this, and have my pains spelled out in black and white and staring me in the face, it would spark something

Anyone else find it incredibly hard to spot problems, or "find their own itch to scratch"? I was reading @tdinh_me 's latest blog post and he mentioned how his products were all basically made as solutions to his own frustrations. Which makes sense But, with his annoyance with chatGPT - I mean, I went through the same experience with it as he did - but it never annoyed me to such a degree that I thought I should take action and build a product to fix it I wonder how many goldmines are floating around me that I'm too blind/numb to see 🤔

@theotarr_ Maybe wrapper represents incremental progress. Building on top of what exists. In which case it's increased value.

software is a bubble everything is just a wrapper on a wrapper

@robjama Yes! We need tools like that. I was in a discord meeting recently that had a boring button, pressing it anonymously showed the speaker they're taking too long.

Imagine having a game clock to track meeting time and a 24-sec shot clock for each speaker to make their point. Fouls for talking to much, too many fouls and you're ejected. Efficiency, engagement, & a dash of competition could make meetings a... slam dunk

@tobi Whoa so cool. Mobile hardware is so under-utilized. Go mobile team!

I'm very excited about this. Please add 3D models of your products to Shopify! If you are on any recent theme they will be automatically displayed on web and shop and can even be placed virtually in a room from the brower.

iOS 17 music player looks like the player I shipped at Anghami 5 years ago. It's a floating button instead of being attached to the tab bar. Feeling avant-garde.

@CopySutra I go in cycles. Some months I can't get past 10 pages, others I can't put a book down. But it's also the author's responsibility to keep you hooked. Many books used to be blogs, so probably the same effect?

Now this is a good reason why I would read a book. But still, I can't get myself to focus on a 100-150 page book on the same topic for a very long time. It gets boring too fast with most of them. And I can't help myself but to ditch the reading. I read a sh!t ton of blogs though.

I don't read self help books. Ghostwriters on X are doing that job for me and giving me the juicy bits everyday. 😂 Or I simply use ChatGPT to get the 10 best lessons. Am I missing something?

@heyabhishek Probably applies to anything. Ask the smartest person a bad question, the result will be limited.

ChatGPT is everyone's top pick for an AI assistant. But it's not psychic. Ask well to get the best results. The art is in the prompt.

@AprilynneAlter Your video is so inspiring! The insights you share are so meaningful, and they also make a lot of sense. Thank you for sharing!

Video passed 10K views! And this is the highest CTR I've ever seen from one of my videos after 9 days Usually, the CTR decreases over time, as it's pushed to a wider audience For this video, it's actually *increased* over time Truly insane

@_jnic @_nightsweekends such a good callout. the process of distilling is actually pretty slow 😅 thanks!

@batlounis @_nightsweekends You use "distill" twice - once in the header and once in the subheader. I don't think "distill" is a strong enough word for the header. Maybe try something like "Edit hours of video footage in seconds." Tells me this thing makes my life easier and it's fast.

@natiakourdadze @_buildspace both are tools that use AI to segment video, but the purpose is different. Roughcut is meant to integrate in an editor's workflow, by writing down their creative vision and continue editing in their pro tools (premiere, DaVinci...). If you use these editors, lmk!

@batlounis @_buildspace Is it like Opus .ai?

🎥 Any video editors tired of sifting through hours of footage? Looking for pros willing to test Roughcut. It transforms hour-long clips into minutes. I just added export for adobe premiere to seamlessly fit into your workflow! DM me to get started cc @_buildspace