Explore · The library
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.
- A top VC walks through a real founder's Claude Project setup, a concrete, copyable example of putting business context into an... sarahtavel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Getting started with Claude Projects: Starting the day off right Sarah Tavel (Benchmark)
- A billion-dollar founder shares his exact custom-instruction templates so ChatGPT permanently knows who you are and how you work. simple.ai Article · How Founders Use AI The ChatGPT Feature 90% of Users Ignore (But Shouldn't) Dharmesh Shah (simple.ai / HubSpot co-founder)
- Explains what ChatGPT remembers about you, how to view and edit it, and how to keep sensitive business info out, essential... help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Memory FAQ OpenAI Help Center
- A first-person, three-tool workflow with the actual prompts: each assistant used for the stage it is best at. tomsguide.com Article · How Founders Use AI How I use Claude for strategy, Gemini for research and ChatGPT for 'the grind' Amanda Caswell, Tom's Guide
- A bootstrapped indie founder itemizes his real stack with actual prices ($73-205/month all-in), showing you can run a whole... superframeworks.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The Solopreneur AI Stack Costs Under $200/Month, Here's What's In It Ayush Chaturvedi (Superframeworks)
- A seven-category head-to-head of the two subscriptions most founders debate first, with a clear verdict framework: depth of... tomsguide.com Article · How Founders Use AI Claude Pro vs ChatGPT Plus, I tested both subscriptions to see which one's actually worth $20 Amanda Caswell, Tom's Guide
- A useful contrarian take from a daily user of all four: keep the generous free tiers for most tools and pay for only the one... xda-developers.com Article · How Founders Use AI I use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini daily, here's the only one worth paying for Mahnoor Faisal, XDA Developers
- A working engineer's system for filtering AI noise, stick to primary sources and a short list of trustworthy people, from an... blog.nilenso.com Article · How Founders Use AI How I keep up with AI progress Atharva Raykar (nilenso, Bangalore)
- Gives five concrete filters you can apply to any shiny new tool, start from work friction, go deep on one tool for a week, the... chriskobar.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI You Can't Keep Up With AI. Nobody Can. Here's What to Do Instead. Christopher Kobar
- A named 15-minutes-a-day source list (AI Daily Brief, Ethan Mollick, Ben's Bites, Nate B. Jones) you can copy wholesale instead... smithstephen.com Article · How Founders Use AI You Asked How I Keep Up With AI. Here's the Honest Answer. Stephen Smith (Intelligence by Intent)
- First-person, very fresh walkthrough of using AI as a sparring partner, devil's advocacy, blind-spot hunting, and... wondertools.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI Five Useful AI Tactics to Sharpen Your Thinking Every Day Jeremy Caplan (Wonder Tools)
- Gives you a copy-paste system prompt that turns ChatGPT/Claude into a 'challenge first, support second' devil's advocate,... aimaker.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI I Reprogrammed My AI to Disagree With Me, Here's What Happened Wyndo (The AI Maker)
- A step-by-step method for designing an AI 'board' with distinct seats, an inverter to challenge assumptions, a simplifier, a... mehtacognition.substack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How I AI: Build Your Personal Board of Advisors Nishant Mehta (Mehta Cognition)
- A chief of staff compares Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot as thought partners for anticipating tough board questions on a... sectionai.com Article · How Founders Use AI How I Use AI to Help My Boss Prepare for Board Meetings Ana Silva (Section)
- A bootstrapped SaaS founder shows exactly how he uses ChatGPT and Claude to cover coding, marketing, support, and sysadmin... thebootstrappedfounder.com Article · How Founders Use AI The AI-Powered Solopreneur Arvid Kahl (The Bootstrapped Founder)
- Hour-by-hour breakdown of one operator running multiple AI coding agents in parallel, the most concrete picture of one person... every.to Article · How Founders Use AI How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five Kieran Klaassen (Every)
- A practical six-step playbook mapping which AI tools cover which gap, discovery, prototyping, production, marketing, sales, for... aakashgupta.medium.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How Solo Founders Are Building $1M+ SaaS Businesses (Using Only AI Tools) Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
- The defining write-up of the tiny-teams movement, with real operating tactics from Gamma, Gumloop, Bolt.new, and other... latent.space Article · How Founders Use AI The Tiny Teams Playbook swyx (Latent Space)
- Maps which parts of production readiness you can automate. web.archive.org Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding startups: when it works, breaks, and what to automate Autonoma
- Learn from seven documented launch failures before yours. web.archive.org Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding failures: 7 real apps that broke in production Autonoma
- A current shortlist with pricing and platform coverage. toolfolio.com Article · How Founders Use AI 7 best vibe coding tools for mobile apps Toolfolio
- The fastest click-through to a connected repo. web.archive.org Guide · How Founders Use AI How to integrate Lovable with GitHub: 1-minute guide Storylane
- He threw away three full builds before it stuck; the mistakes here will save you months. web.archive.org Article · How Founders Use AI How I Burned Months Building a Salesforce Replacement with Claude Charles (iCharles)
- The sharpest checklist of what a vibe-coded CRM must handle before you trust it with pipeline. aquiva.com Article · How Founders Use AI Considering an AI-Built CRM instead of Salesforce? Read this first Aquiva Labs
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
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