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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.
- Reports that Krutrim's Kruti assistant was pulled from the app stores, the web and the Ola app. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI Ola Krutrim's 'Kruti' AI Chatbot Goes Offline Inc42
- What the National Language Translation Mission offers: voice-first translation services, apps and data for Indian languages. bhashini.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI About BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division
- The government's note on Sarvam's selection under the IndiaAI Mission and what its models cover. static.pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Sarvam AI: Powering a Made-in-India AI Revolution Press Information Bureau, Government of India
- ElevenLabs' model list with the languages each covers, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and eight more Indian languages. elevenlabs.io Guide · How Founders Use AI Models ElevenLabs
- The OECD's record of the Voice of India findings as a risk to welfare and health services. oecd.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Global AI Speech Recognition Models Fail Indian Languages, Impacting Critical Services OECD AI Incidents Monitor
- A real case of auto-translation reversing the meaning of a Kannada message, and the complaint that followed. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah Calls Out Meta For 'Faulty' Kannada Translation Inc42
- An independent developer-education site's ranking of the builders and coding agents by skill level, useful to see where each... roadmap.sh Guide · How Founders Use AI The 10 Best Vibe Coding Tools roadmap.sh
- Anthropic's docs on what Claude Code does and every place it runs: terminal, VS Code, JetBrains, desktop, web, Slack and CI. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Code overview Anthropic
- OpenAI's documentation for Codex in the app, CLI, IDE and cloud, including how cloud tasks run after you close the laptop. learn.chatgpt.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Codex docs OpenAI
- Cursor's own post on the acquisition, which explains why its cheaper plans centre on xAI's Grok models. cursor.com Article · How Founders Use AI Cursor is now a part of SpaceX Cursor
- A ten-minute official walkthrough of the prompting loop: one outcome, success criteria, boundaries, test in Preview, then one... docs.replit.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Build your first app Replit
- A free structured course on writing a product brief, building two apps and debugging with an agent. deeplearning.ai Course · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding 101 with Replit DeepLearning.AI and Replit
- A Google engineering lead's five principles: start from a short brief, let the agent draft the detail, plan in read-only mode... addyosmani.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to write a good spec for AI agents Addy Osmani
- Shows the three files a working spec splits into: requirements with acceptance criteria, a design doc, and a task list you track. kiro.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Specs (Kiro docs) Kiro (AWS)
- The open format for a README written for coding agents: setup and test commands and code style, read by Codex, Copilot and others. agents.md Guide · How Founders Use AI AGENTS.md AGENTS.md
- The official first session, step by step: install commands for Mac, Linux, WSL and Windows, signing in, a first question, a... code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Code quickstart Anthropic
- System requirements and the other install routes (Homebrew, WinGet, apt, dnf), plus how to fix a PATH that cannot find claude. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Advanced setup Anthropic
- Installing and using the VS Code extension for anyone who would rather not work in a bare terminal. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use Claude Code in VS Code Anthropic
- A free course on steering long sessions with plan mode, writing a lean CLAUDE.md, and verifying what Claude did. anthropic.skilljar.com Course · How Founders Use AI Claude Code in Action Anthropic Academy
- Google's explainer, with a table separating agents, assistants and bots by how much they decide on their own. cloud.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI What are AI agents? Google Cloud
- A free course unit that explains an agent as a model that reasons, plans and acts through tools, with simple diagrams. huggingface.co Course · How Founders Use AI What are agents? (Hugging Face Agents Course) Hugging Face
- The open-source Python library for building agents with tools, handoffs and guardrails once you are ready to write code. openai.github.io Guide · How Founders Use AI OpenAI Agents SDK OpenAI
- The library behind Claude Code, for building your own agent that reads files, runs commands and uses MCP tools. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Agent SDK overview Anthropic
- The specification itself, the source to read when you need exact behaviour. modelcontextprotocol.io Guide · How Founders Use AI MCP specification (2026-07-28) Model Context Protocol
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
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