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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 full workflow that builds production discipline in from the first prompt. sitepoint.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Production vibe coding workflow: from prompt to deploy SitePoint
  2. Draws the prototype-versus-production line precisely, then walks the gap. vibengineer.io Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coded prototype to production: how to harden the demo Vibengineer
  3. A time-boxed two-week plan if you need a launch date, not a philosophy. appstuck.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Vibe coded to production: the 14-day playbook AppStuck
  4. A sober framework for deciding rebuild versus harden. mindstudio.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Is vibe coding good enough for production apps? MindStudio
  5. First-party account of the year vibe-coded apps leaked data, and the safer defaults that followed. supabase.com Article · How Founders Use AI Supabase security retro: 2025 Supabase
  6. The cautionary tale every Lovable and Bolt builder should read before launch. byteiota.com Article · How Founders Use AI Supabase security flaw: 170+ apps exposed by missing RLS byteiota
  7. A checklist mapped to the exact mistakes AI-generated backends make. vibeappscanner.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Supabase security: RLS, service_role and the CVE-2025-48757 patterns Vibe App Scanner
  8. Why giving your AI agent production database access is its own attack surface. pomerium.com Article · How Founders Use AI When AI has root: lessons from the Supabase MCP data leak Pomerium
  9. Security researchers show how trivially exposed vibe-coded backends get found. labs.cognisys.group Article · How Founders Use AI Supabase leaks: what we found Cognisys Labs
  10. A self-audit you can run on your own app in an afternoon. dev.to Article · How Founders Use AI Supabase security: the hidden dangers of RLS and how to audit your API Fabio (DEV)
  11. Builds the structured habits (PRD, specs, checkpoints) that make production transition survivable. lennysnewsletter.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The complete beginner's guide to coding with AI: from PRD to first lines of code Lenny's Newsletter
  12. The deploy-day specifics: environments, secrets, monitoring. tsvillain.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Deploying vibe-coded applications: a production guide Tekeshwar Singh
  13. Lovable-specific hardening path, useful if that is your stack. logic-square.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to turn a Lovable prototype into a production system Logic Square
  14. A neutral overview of where AI genuinely speeds up usability testing. figma.com Guide · How Founders Use AI AI usability testing guide: modern workflow and tools Figma
  15. Turns 'send the link around' into a structured test with real findings in about an hour. reforge.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to get structured user feedback on your AI prototypes Reforge
  16. Mobile-specific prototype testing tactics, useful for app founders. usertesting.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to get rapid user feedback on your mobile app prototype UserTesting
  17. Peer-reviewed-grade caution on what simulated users systematically miss. interactions.acm.org Article · How Founders Use AI The challenges of synthetic users in UX research ACM Interactions
  18. Quantitative comparisons of synthetic versus human responses across studies. measuringu.com Article · How Founders Use AI A review of experiments with synthetic users MeasuringU (Jeff Sauro)
  19. A balanced practitioner summary if you only read one pros-and-cons piece. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI synthetic users for UX testing: pros and cons guide Hashbyt
  20. Head-to-head of the three main AI research platforms, including message testing. genesysgrowth.com Article · How Founders Use AI UserTesting AI vs Maze AI vs Wynter: a complete guide Genesys Growth
  21. A current tool landscape so you pick by need, not brand recall. uxarmy.com Article · How Founders Use AI Top AI tools for usability testing UXArmy
  22. A researcher's hands-on trial of synthetic interviews with honest results. carolinaguimaraeslima.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Synthetic users: the next revolution in UX research? Carolina Guimarães
  23. A free field guide for running interviews that produce decisions, not just notes. userinterviews.com Guide · How Founders Use AI User interviews for UX research: what, why and how User Interviews
  24. Context on the fastest-growing mobile AI builder and where it is headed. prnewswire.com Article · How Founders Use AI Rork raises $15M to power the next generation of App Store entrepreneurs Rork (PR Newswire)

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