Nick Saraev: Claude, Codex & AI Agents

The Only Codex Course You Need in 2026 (4.5 Hours)

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
This is the definitive course all about Codex for business. In this course, I guide people from absolute beginner all the way up to seasoned pro, building prompts, skills, automations, and then helping you put actual business-ready systems onto the cloud so anybody on your team or your clients' teams can run them.

I also walk you through advanced tips like computer use, browser use, APIs, MCPs, plugins, scheduled tasks, and more. This really is your all-in-one resource for getting up to speed on OpenAI's Lovely Codex

Chapters
0:00 What you'll build in this course
2:43 Install Codex, create your account, interface tour
24:34 The RACE framework: where automation pays off
31:36 The 4 levels: prompts, skills, local automations, cloud automations
33:37 Sales: turn a sales call into a proposal with e-sign and checkout
1:08:18 Automate it: webhook from your call recorder to a finished proposal
1:28:04 Marketing: organic content repurposing with skills
2:18:58 Operations: daily pipeline hygiene on a schedule
2:46:15 After-hours voice agent that handles leads
3:35:10 Maintaining and upgrading your systems
3:56:47 Advanced tips: browser use and computer use
4:26:23 FAQ: delivering agents to clients, security, what to build next

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Build It Live: YouTube Video Page Rebuild in Tailwind CSS

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0000

Starting a new weekly series where I build designs from the ground up, live.

I think too much of modern web development tutorials is just copy/pasting from a hidden monitor. There's no better way to learn real job skills than seeing what frontend developers *actually* do/think while building, debugging, and launching.

In this Tailwind CSS tutorial, you'll learn how to build the main YouTube video page completely with Tailwind.

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Building the Sketch.com Landing Page with TailwindCSS

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0000

Skip to 2:17:52 to see the finished product.

In this video, I rebuild the Sketch.com landing page from scratch using 100% TailwindCSS, and walk you through every one of my development decisions while doing so. I squash a couple of bugs, show you multiple ways to do the same thing, and ultimately present as realistic-of-a-workflow as possible for beginners trying to get up and running with Tailwind.

TailwindCSS is a highly extensible and minimal UI framework that lets you quickly sketch up websites, apps, and landing pages. I use it all the time for my personal projects, and I have yet to find a CSS framework as simple and easy to get started with as Tailwind.

Docs: https://tailwindcss.com/docs

Questions/comments? Let me know, more than happily help.

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Fable 5.1 Just Dropped. It's Not Even Close.

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

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How to Create a Frosted Navbar with TailwindCSS

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

Looking to create a beautiful frosted navbar with TailwindCSS? Lucky for you, Tailwind makes it incredibly easy to get started.

It takes maybe 30 seconds tops:

1. Add a bg-opacity utility class to the parent div to make navbar transparent. I used bg-opacity-80 in this video, but you can use whatever level you'd like.
2. Add a bg-clip-padding class to the parent div to constrain the blur effect.
3. Create your own custom CSS class (I called mine blur-backdrop-filter, for instance) that includes a backdrop-filter: blur(6px) property. You can change the pixel value to whatever you'd like - higher means a stronger blur (more frosting), and lower means a weaker blur.

Hope that helps!

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The BEST AI Video Strategy No One Is Using

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth consultancy. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

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Other platforms I'm on ⤵️
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_saraev
🕊️ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
✍🏻 Blog: https://nicksaraev.com

My free multi-hour courses ⤵️
→ Claude Code (4hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI
→ Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyRjL7NG18
→ N8N (6hr full course, 1M+ views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZ2SNXWK-c

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Summary ⤵️
We built a SaaS with Claude Code and AI agents that just hit $1 million/yr ARR called Clairvo!

Clairvo helps you improve your "pickup rates" (TLDR: the portion of people that pick up your calls) using neat, Claude Code-generated techniques like algorithmic predictive pacing, local number rotations, etc.

In this video, I guide you through how to do the same thing for yourself. it's actually fairly easy, assuming you use Claude to enumerate over the space of all possible opportunities!

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Chapters ⤵️
0:00 You Can Edit Anything in Your Videos Now
0:41 The Full Pipeline, Explained
1:27 Hyper-Specific Prompts (Trigger + Change)
2:17 Why You Need a Video-to-Video Model
2:42 Don't Generate From Scratch, Scaffold Real Footage
3:32 The 720p Problem Nobody Warns You About
4:01 Hiding the Seam With a Scene Cut
5:03 Setting Up the Model
5:38 What This Actually Costs
6:31 Using a Model Aggregator (Higgsfield)

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I Think GPT-6-Astra Just Changed YouTube

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
Thought I'd show you guys a cool way you can animate your videos using WAN 2.2, WAN 3.0, and Higgs Field's new Ginjutsu operating system.

Super cool stuff and probably going to redefine the future of creator-led media, but what do I know?

Chapters
00:00 I turned myself into an animated character
01:00 How video style transfer works
02:43 Astra as your production manager
04:39 10 animation styles to try
05:47 Setting up Higgsfield
07:05 Creating a style with GPT Image 2.5
08:31 Animating your footage with Genjutsu
10:22 Using style transfer for ads and content
12:00 Wan 3.0: a cheaper alternative
13:39 Automating the workflow with GPT-6-Astra
16:03 Resolution, credits, and silence removal
17:35 Self-hosting Wan 2.2 Animate
18:40 Reviewing the animated results
20:25 Learn more with Maker School

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How to Create Beautiful Animated Buttons with TailwindCSS

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Want to create animated buttons with TailwindCSS? Tailwind's animate utility classes are perfect for encouraging users to take certain actions on your website or app.

In this short TailwindCSS tutorial, I show you how to build a quick and easy button that employs animate-pulse for a slight oscillating 'sheen' that can help improve your clickthrough rates substantially.

Note: I just realized I forgot to include hover classes on the button! Add the following utilities to the parent button to instantly make your design more interactive: 'hover:text-gray-400 hover:shadow-md transition duration-300'.

Thanks for watching.

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I Uploaded A Fruit Fly Brain To Reply To My Emails

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
This is kind of crazy, but I thought I'd share it with you guys anyway. I fed in a fruit fly brain to GPT-6 Astra and had it modify the brain such that it could do economically valuable tasks for me, like reply to my emails.

Breakdown of how I did that here.

Chapters

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The Easiest Way To Add Analytics to a NuxtJS Project

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

Hi guys,

Here's a quick and easy way to add analytics to any NuxtJS project using techniques you already know. Just copy and paste your tag into an app.html file in the root of your project folder, and use the following structure for your template:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s534/sh/eb05642a-e833-8886-5b72-7eac69f409b0/440bd8523ca890fbc0f93834afa22c16

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I Found a Way To Use AI Agents Like Codex Completely For FREE

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
Here's a simple way to use AI agents 100% free with no subscription and no credit card required. That's right, you don't even need to add your credit card!

Chapters
0:00 Introduction to free ad-funded agent
0:33 Available free models and daily limits
1:42 Downloading and signing up, no credit card
2:37 Understanding daily credits and pricing
3:31 Making a simple one-page website
4:54 Making a stick figure walking game
6:05 Missions, agents, phone mirroring and ads
7:03 Checking our one-page site and walking game
8:38 Why free agents are important

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How to Create High Quality, Clickbait YouTube Thumbnails with Photoshop

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0000

Skip to 12:45 to see the finished product.

Hi friends,

True to the name, this is both a design channel and a media channel, so here's something of a departure from more programmy-related topics. In this video I'll show you how to create a clickbaity, high quality thumbnail using Photoshop like those you see at my main channel over at youtube.com/nicksaraev.

Hope this helped - let me know if you have any questions.

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How I Build Better Make.com Scenarios With Iterative Testing

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0000

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SUMMARY ⤵️
From an Airbnb today so excuse the quality. Wanted to talk about a concept called *iterative testing* in this video—basically the only way I build my Make.com scenarios in 2024. TLDR: start at the end and work your way backwards, run every module before you connect a subsequent one to it, and do just one end-to-end test at the end (as opposed to dozens throughout the building process). Much cleaner, more effective, and it's a great way to train junior engineers on effective Make.com building practices.

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction to Iterative Testing
6:15 The Power of Quick Hacks
16:29 Practical Iterative Testing Techniques
27:29 Conducting an End-to-End Test
30:44 Conclusion on Iterative Testing

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I spent $1,486 on Fable tokens so you don't have to

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth consultancy. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

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Other platforms I'm on ⤵️
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_saraev
🕊️ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
✍🏻 Blog: https://nicksaraev.com

My free multi-hour courses ⤵️
→ Claude Code (4hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI
→ Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyRjL7NG18
→ N8N (6hr full course, 1M+ views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZ2SNXWK-c

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Summary ⤵️

In this video, I show you how to significantly improve your usage of Fable and other Claude-based models through optimizations like RTK (Rust Token Killer), post-use hooks, SQLite and more.

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Chapters ⤵️
00:00:00 Introduction and testing Fable’s token usage
00:01:10 RTK for reducing tool-call tokens
00:04:05 Semantic compression for system prompts and memory files
00:07:05 Logs to SQLite for querying large log files
00:09:20 Blocking huge reads with targeted search
00:11:15 Prompting in English and token differences across languages
00:12:40 Adding context frugality rules to the system prompt
00:15:00 Periodically checking context for hidden token usage
00:17:10 Capping thinking budgets and comparing low versus high effort

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4 Terrible Mistakes to Avoid When Delegating Your Automation Agency

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

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SUMMARY ⤵️
Hiring is not easy! As I frequently mention, it's hard (and unreliable) enough that I typically do it *last*, and prioritize it less than I do other systemic changes within the automation agency. That said, eventually you will need to start delegating work—and this guide helps you avoid the biggest mistakes in doing it. Follow these and you'll make hundreds of thousands of dollars more than I did when I was in your shoes!

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

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GLM-5.2 is Basically Opus (For 1/5 the Price)

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:00:00 -0000

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If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth consultancy. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

--

Other platforms I'm on ⤵️
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_saraev
🕊️ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
✍🏻 Blog: https://nicksaraev.com

My free multi-hour courses ⤵️
→ Claude Code (4hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI
→ Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyRjL7NG18
→ N8N (6hr full course, 1M+ views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZ2SNXWK-c

--

Summary ⤵️
GLM 5.2 delivers approximately the same performance as Opus 4.8, but at 5x lower cost. In this video, I explore a bunch of tasteful examples of GLM 5.2 versus Opus 4.8's design and development skills, as well as its ability to code software applications like games, interactive flyovers, and more.

I also show you how to set it up yourself within around three minutes or so!

--

Chapters ⤵️
00:00:00 Introduction and Comparison Setup
00:01:05 Examples Across 3D Scenes, Dashboards, and Apps
00:04:10 Visual Quality in Creative Outputs
00:06:20 Mini-Games and Overall Takeaway
00:08:05 Setting Up GLM 5.2 in Cloud Code
00:10:40 Web Search and Additional Harnesses
00:13:20 Cost and Hosting Options

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The Definitive Make.com HTTP and API Masterclass

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:30:00 -0000

GET THE BLUEPRINT HERE FOR FREE 🙏
https://gamma.app/docs/Makecom-HTTP-Module-API-Masterclass-s1ta03lzcofgikp

Watch me build my $300K/mo business live with daily videos + strategy ⤵️
https://www.youtube.com/@nicksaraevdaily

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SUMMARY ⤵️
In this video, I cover everything and anything about the HTTP request module. This is a top 1% skill that'll let you connect any platform to Make.com—even if it's not natively supported. Incredibly important if you want to upskill and take your Make.com talents to the next level.

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction to HTTP Module
32:00 Connecting to Any Mail Finder API
44:35 Exploring Phantom Buster API
57:20 Adding Leads with Instantly API
58:44 Understanding OAuth 2.0 Requests
1:05:41 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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The Definitive Make.com Web Scraping Masterclass

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0000

Disclaimer: Fiverr updated their anti-scraping protections ~a year after I created this, so you may receive an error using the approach I show in the vid (atm seems 50/50). If this occurs, know that you can still scrape Fiverr and any other resource—you just have to use a third party approach like Firecrawl.dev. Happy scraping!

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SUMMARY ⤵️
In this video you'll find everything I know about web scraping in Make.com. You'll learn how HTML works, how requests, static sites, and dynamic sites differ, and the best ways to scrape them + examples for each!

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME 🤝
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction to Web Scraping
11:15 The Importance of Parsing
28:44 Live Scraping Examples
32:51 Scraping Fiverr Listings
54:21 Handling Dynamic Websites
1:03:54 Discovering Hidden APIs
1:13:06 Conclusion and Next Steps

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How to Think Clearly In The Era Of AI: Full Course (5 Hours)

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
This is the Clear Thinking Course, a magnum opus I put together over the course of the last few days where I dumped everything that I know about thinking clearly and making effective decisions into one place

This course represents around a decade of my life of learning various thinking techniques on both the hardware side, e.g. biological optimizations, and software side, e.g. thinking techniques and rationality principles

You will learn about things like expected value methodology, Bayes' theorem, the planning fallacy, local and global maxima and minima, the power law, the chain law, exploration versus exploitation, and more!

I hope you enjoy.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:49 What this course covers
5:02 How to take this course
6:05 The biological basis of cognition
11:19 Why your brain is stingy with energy
14:13 Working memory and the four-chunk limit
16:32 Chunking and meaning
23:21 The rats and enriched environments
32:08 What willpower really is
36:01 Asymmetric bets
45:30 Nobody is designing this for you
46:16 Choice architecture
48:37 Defaults and organ donation
54:07 Finding the defaults in your life
56:48 Friction, the golden rule
1:03:40 Optimizing your hardware
1:05:32 Sleep, nutrition and exercise
1:07:39 Check for a sleep disorder first
1:15:14 Cutting caffeine
1:20:16 Bloodwork and deficiencies
1:22:52 Cutting alcohol
1:26:07 Protein, fiber and creatine
1:28:34 Raising your VO2 max
1:30

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3 Unsettling Ways Internet Marketers Lie to You

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000

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📚 Watch my NEW 2026 Claude Code course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI
🎙️ Listen to my silly podcast: www.youtube.com/@stackedpod

💼 Work with my team: https://dub.sh/work-with-me-gex

📚 Free multi-hour courses
→ Claude Code (4hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI
→ Vibe Coding w/ Antigravity (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcuR_-rzlDw
→ Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyRjL7NG18
→ N8N (6hr full course, 890K+ views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZ2SNXWK-c

Summary ⤵️
The video breaks down three major ways internet marketers mislead people: inflated revenue claims, borrowed credibility through team associations, and misleading ownership stakes. It shows how these tactics distort perception and teaches viewers how to see the real numbers behind the hype.

My software, tools, and deals (some give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 Instantly: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 Anymailfinder: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
🤖 Apify: https://console.apify.com/sign-up (30% off with code 30NICKSARAEV)
🧑🏽‍💻 n8n: https://n8n.partnerlinks.io/h372ujv8cw80
📈 Rize: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (25% off with promo code NICK)

Follow me on other platforms 😈
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_saraev
🕊️ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 Blog: https://nicksaraev.com

Why watch?
If this is your first view—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent six years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like.

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life 🙏

Like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Revenue
03:09 Teams
05:37 Ownership
10:29 Outro

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CLAUDE CODE MARKETING FULL COURSE (6 HOURS)

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:00:00 -0000

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💎 Get all course resources 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about
🖇️ Claude: https://claude.ai CRM: https://clickup.ai Video AI: https://higgsfield.ai/s/tWhJfK

If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
This is THE Claude Code for Marketing course. In it, I will show you how to use Claude Code to replace virtually *every* marketing function, from the generation of creative, to speed to lead, to database/dashboard design, and finally followups.

Chapters
0:00 Welcome + what you'll build
3:30 Download, install and set up Claude Code
7:54 Full interface tour
47:17 The five marketing functions framework
1:03:06 Prompts vs skills vs loops vs cloud routines
1:15:23 Top of funnel: automating ad creative
1:42:53 Building the ad creative skill
2:35:08 AI video creative
2:59:15 Turning builds into repeatable skills
3:11:12 Personalized copy: newsletters
3:43:01 Personalized copy: cold email + fuzzy variables
4:06:22 Speed to lead: email, SMS and voice
4:36:37 Data collection, tracking and dashboards
5:09:55 Bottom of funnel: automated follow-ups
5:33:38 Recap of the five functions
5:35:45 Maintenance and advanced tips
6:01:35 When not to automate + wrap-up

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How I Made $500K On Upwork Using AI Automation (Step-By-Step)

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:00:00 -0000

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SUMMARY ⤵️
I love Upwork to death and use it often. It's a straightforward, dependable lead source, and in my humble opinion too many people turn up their noses at the prospect of Upwork revenue (not me!)

In this video I'll show you how to succeed on Upwork using the same strategies that got me to nearly $500,000—how I structured my profile, how I applied to jobs, etc.

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Timestamps
0:00 Upwork Success Blueprint
1:14 Profile Optimization Secrets
1:55 Application Strategy Unveiled
2:34 Scaling Beyond Freelancing
3:23 Mastering Upwork SEO
4:01 The Importance of Niches
10:18 Why Choose Upwork?
11:41 Creating an Irresistible Profile
17:16 Crafting the Perfect Job Title
23:51 Setting Competitive Rates
30:00 Writing an Engaging Description
31:27 The Power of Video Introductions
32:52 Maximizing Client Communication
36:23 The Review System Explained
44:14 Winning Application Tactics
59:59 Application Process Insights
1:06:52 Scaling Your Upwork Business
1:15:04 Advanced Upwork Concepts
1:23:37 Importance of Badges and Invitations

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The Viral $1 Website Effect That Looks Like $10K (Tutorial)

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:00:00 -0000

🔥 Here is how I generated the images/videos (Higgsfield: https://higgsfield.ai/s/jGNCEZ)
💎 Here is where you can get all the prompts 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about
➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
Simple, straightforward guide to building a viral website dithering effect using Claude Code, Nano Banana Pro, and Seeddance 2.0.

Super straightforward and I'll give you all the prompts!

Chapters
0:00 The effect
0:45 How the pipeline works
1:19 Why we chop it into frames
2:29 What dithering actually is
5:00 Generating the base image
5:41 Settings that matter
7:25 Turning the image into video
11:08 Setting up Claude
12:30 Feeding it the prompt
15:25 Trying different styles
16:27 Building a second site
17:43 Getting it on the internet
18:32 Deploying free with Vercel
20:33 The live site
22:22 Wrap up

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48 Minutes of Make.com Hacks You Didn't Know ($2.5M Earned)

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:00:00 -0000

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SUMMARY ⤵️
In this vid I share a comprehensive collection of Make.com hacks that will save you time and money (in operations, revision requests, maintenance, etc). You'll learn everything from simple keyboard shortcuts to advanced variable management and design patterns.

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Make.com Hacks for Faster Building
00:21:11 Instant Email Responses with Mail Hooks
00:38:56 Efficient Testing with Set Variables
00:41:03 Handling API Rate Limits with Break Module
00:47:34 Understanding HTTP Status Codes and Errors

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I Spent $400 Benching Opus-5. Here's What It Can Do

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:00:00 -0000

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
The end-to-end, definitive course on Claude Code for beginners! I'll take you through a full four-hour masterclass where I start by teaching you how to set up and install Claude Code in a tutorial, how to configure your IDE or integrated development environment (we'll use Antigravity), how to utilize your CLAUDE.md file as your project brain, how to build your first project in Antigravity using Claude Code in under 15 minutes, advanced Claude Code functionality including hooks, slash commands, and more.

I also teach you how to spin up multiple Claude Code instances and have them work on your behalf; how to parallelize work using sub-agents; how to use Git work trees to accomplish many hours of work in just a few minutes; how to conserve tokens and use context management to crush your coding and software projects; how to deploy things to the cloud using Modal and related services, and in general... how to be awesome at Claude Code! Hope you enjoy the tutorial.

Chapters
0:00 Opus 5 just dropped (3D gallery demo)
1:38 Orbit launch game
2:30 Cloth simulation
2:55 Fractal generator
3:28 Falling-sand cell sim
4:02 Predator-prey ecosystem
4:32 Quadcopter flight sim
4:55 Double pendulum
5:14 Pixel editor
5:52 Sneaker configurator
6:40 Animated population map
7:14 Wrecking ball simulator
8:20 My take + cost vs Fable 5
9:05 Benchmark breakdown
11:22 Performance per dollar (effort curves)
13:40 Alignment scor

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5 Things I Wish I Knew About Automation Agencies Before I Started One

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

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SUMMARY ⤵️
I've been running an automation agency for ~two years now, and I've naturally learned a lot over that time period. Mostly through failure. If I could transport those failures back in time, I'd be rich!

MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)
🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short
📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short
👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short
✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short
📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿
HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLw
MY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irk
GENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQ

FOLLOW ME
✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com
🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai
🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev
🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.com

WHY ME?
If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like!

Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-)

Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction to Automation Agencies
00:04:37 Skills for Success
00:09:17 Client Perception vs. Reality
00:15:42 Focus on What Matters
00:21:21 Consistency Over Master Plans
00:28:18 The Power of Opportunities
00:32:00 Conclusion: Mastering Business Skills

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