The Story Behind Prompt Stash
A deep dive into building and launching Prompt Stash, our first product. Timeline, tech decisions, lessons learned, and what's next.
It Started with Friction
I was drowning in scattered prompts. Notes app. ChatGPT history. Gemini tabs. Discord threads. Every time I found a prompt that worked, I'd lose it. And when I needed something similar weeks later, I'd either dig through my chat history like an archaeologist or just rewrite it from scratch.
Copy. Paste. Modify by hand. Repeat.
It wasn't a catastrophe. It was just inefficient. The kind of small tax that compounds across every project.
At the same time, I wanted to test the Plasmo framework for browser extensions. Building something useful that solved my own problem felt like the perfect test case. Scratching my own itch meant I had a real user in the mirror.
So I built it.
What I Kept Seeing
Once I started using it, the pattern became obvious. Every builder I talked to had the same problem. Smart people doing repetitive prompt work. Teams rebuilding prompts they'd already built. Knowledge scattered instead of reused. Velocity bleeding away on small taxes that nobody noticed until they added up.
The Pattern Was Clear
A great prompt is an asset. It compounds. It gets shared. It becomes institutional knowledge. But prompts live nowhere. They scatter. They get lost when you change browsers or switch machines or just forget where you saved that one thing.
I wasn't trying to build a prompt library. I was trying to eliminate the moment where someone stops thinking about the problem and starts thinking about where they saved that one thing.
What I Built
Prompt Stash is a browser extension that lets you save, organize, and deploy prompts in seconds. One click. One keystroke. Done.
No new account. No additional tab. No learning curve.
It lives in your browser because that's where you already are. Chrome. Firefox. Both supported.
How It Works
Save Once, Use Everywhere. Highlight a prompt. Save it. Use it across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, or anywhere else you paste.
Organize by Tag. Add a title and a tag (or ten). Retrieve what you need when you need it.
Search Fast. Type a keyword. Find it. Use it.
Why This Matters
I kept rebuilding prompts I'd already written instead of iterating on what worked. Bad use of time. Turns out every team I know hits the same wall. They spend cognitive energy on prompt archaeology instead of prompt iteration.
What used to mean losing an hour to manual tweaking and file-hunting now takes seconds. Not because the work got easier, but because I removed the tax between thinking and doing.
The best teams move fast because they've eliminated these small taxes. If it takes longer to find a prompt than to rewrite one from scratch, I failed.
How to Get Started
Once installed, highlight any prompt, save it, and keep moving.