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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. A hands-on walkthrough of training Vanna on your own schema. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Text-to-SQL Just Got Easier: Meet Vanna AI Tituslhy (MITB For All)
  2. The shortest path from zero to chatting with your production database. datamcp.app Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Desktop + PostgreSQL: MCP Setup in 60 Seconds DataMCP
  3. For the slightly technical founder who wants to understand what the connector actually does. dev.to Guide · How Founders Use AI Build an MCP Server for PostgreSQL: Query Your Database with Claude Sergio Colque Ponce (DEV)
  4. Context on the fast-growing category of upload-and-ask AI data analysts. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round TechCrunch
  5. Honest about the failure mode founders must know: no semantic layer means inconsistent metric definitions. upsolve.ai Article · How Founders Use AI In-Depth Julius AI Review: 100+ User Experiences Analyzed Upsolve
  6. Moda made company data queryable from Slack; the blueprint for a data-access culture. lennysnewsletter.com Article · How Founders Use AI How Amplitude built an internal AI tool the whole company is obsessed with Lenny's Newsletter (Wade Chambers)
  7. For the half-technical founder: SQL clients where AI assists rather than replaces you. dbgate.io Article · How Founders Use AI Top 5 SQL Editors with AI Support DbGate
  8. Why text-to-SQL goes wrong and the guardrails that keep answers trustworthy. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Bridging Natural Language and Databases: Best Practices for LLM-Generated SQL Vi Q. Ha
  9. The most credible security team in cloud lays out exactly which misconfigurations recur. wiz.io Article · How Founders Use AI Wiz Research Finds Risks in 20% of Vibe-Coded Apps Wiz Research
  10. 5,600 apps scanned, 2,000+ vulnerabilities and 400+ exposed secrets; the scale of the problem in numbers. escape.tech Article · How Founders Use AI Methodology: 2k+ Vulnerabilities in Vibe-Coded Apps Escape
  11. The single most actionable checklist: proxy API calls, store secrets in edge functions, lock down RLS. vietanh.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Securing Vibe-Coded Apps: A Practical Guide to Not Getting Hacked Viet Anh
  12. The platform's own hardening guidance, worth reading because its defaults caused the incidents. lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Lovable: Secure Vibe Coding Lovable
  13. The mainstream report on 380,000 scanned apps with 5,000 leaking sensitive data. axios.com Article · How Founders Use AI Thousands of AI-built apps exposed sensitive corporate and personal data Axios
  14. A clear technical autopsy of the anon-key-plus-no-RLS pattern behind the leaks. superblocks.com Article · How Founders Use AI Lovable Vulnerability Explained: How 170+ Apps Were Exposed Superblocks
  15. Once basics work, these are the multi-tenant patterns that keep working at scale. makerkit.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Supabase RLS Best Practices: Production Patterns Makerkit
  16. 93% of tech leaders worry about vibe-coded tools in production; useful ammunition for taking security seriously. retool.com Article · How Founders Use AI The State of AI Governance in 2026 Retool
  17. A printable pre-launch checklist to run before real data enters the tool. catdoes.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The Vibe Coding Security Checklist CatDoes
  18. Benchmarks: 47% of operations teams already run agents, so you can see where you stand. zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI State of agentic AI adoption survey Zapier
  19. Data on platform share and the shift to agent-based architectures, so you bet on the right horse. felixkemeth.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI The State of AI Automation in 2025 Felix Kemeth
  20. Agents that live inside your database and act on records, a different pattern worth knowing. airtable.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Build your first AI app with Omni and Field Agents Airtable
  21. An academic, vendor-neutral profile of what Zapier Agents can and cannot do. aiagentindex.mit.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Zapier Agents: 2025 AI Agent Index MIT AI Agent Index
  22. A wider map of the agent landscape when your automation needs outgrow one platform. zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI The best AI agents for enterprises Zapier
  23. An AI engineer explains why generated debt is invisible to the person who shipped it. zenvanriel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding Technical Debt Crisis: What Engineers Must Know Zen van Riel
  24. A rescue shop describes what they find when founders bring in broken AI-built tools. amplifilabs.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Hidden Risks of Vibe Coding and the Technical Debt It Leaves Behind Amplifi Labs

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1327 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 379 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 512 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 165 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 360 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 425 terms
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