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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. Photo Unblur on Pixel 4a and later (4 GB of RAM or more): open the photo, tap Edit, then Actions, then Unblur. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Edit a photo or video on your Pixel phone Google Photos Help
  2. Apple's steps for Shift-Command-5: record the whole screen, a window or a selected part, with your microphone. support.apple.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to record the screen on Mac Apple
  3. Windows' built-in video snip (Windows key + Shift + R), with captions and an Edit in Clipchamp option. support.microsoft.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots and recordings Microsoft
  4. The official setup for a first recording: sources, scenes, audio and output settings. obsproject.com Guide · How Founders Use AI OBS quick start guide OBS Project
  5. How to save a PDF or image as another file type from Preview's File > Export menu. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Export PDFs and images in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  6. Google's guide to the free spelling and grammar suggestions built into Docs, and how to accept or ignore them. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Check your spelling and grammar in Google Docs Google Docs Help
  7. Apple's steps for one-click background removal in Preview, which converts the image to PNG, and for tracing part of an image to... support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Remove a background or extract an image in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  8. Touch and hold a subject in Photos, Safari or Quick Look to copy it, share it or make it a sticker, with the background left... support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Lift a subject from the photo or video background on iPhone Apple Support
  9. How to change an image's dimensions and reduce its file size in Preview. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Crop, resize, or rotate an image in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  10. Apple's explanation of HEIC, the Most Compatible camera setting that saves JPEG instead, and how to export an existing photo to... support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices Apple Support
  11. YouTube's own steps: in the description click Show transcript, follow along as it scrolls, and click any line to jump to that... support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI View video transcripts YouTube Help
  12. How a creator edits caption text and timing in YouTube Studio, including working from a downloaded caption file. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Edit or remove captions YouTube Help
  13. YouTube's definitions of a transcript, an automatic caption and a closed caption, and the languages its speech recognition covers. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Translation and transcription glossary YouTube Help
  14. YouTube Studio's free Face blur and Custom blur, with tracking, shape and timing controls, and the limit on editing videos with... support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Blur your videos YouTube Help
  15. A security firm's demonstration, with an open-source tool, that pixelated text can be recovered, which is why secrets need a... bishopfox.com Article · How Founders Use AI Never, ever, ever use pixelation for redacting text Bishop Fox
  16. How to add a filled shape over a screenshot or photo on an iPhone, the safe way to hide private details. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Add text, shapes, stickers, and more with Markup on iPhone Apple Support
  17. YouTube's own export settings: H.264, variable bitrate, and the same frame rate the video was recorded in. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI YouTube recommended upload encoding settings YouTube Help
  18. Apple's Clean Up tool for removing distracting objects, on an Apple Intelligence iPhone (15 Pro and later), with the regions... support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Clean up, extend, and reframe photos on iPhone Apple Support
  19. The US law that makes removing or altering copyright management information, such as a credit or watermark, unlawful when done... law.cornell.edu Article · How Founders Use AI 17 U.S. Code 1202: Integrity of copyright management information Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
  20. Audacity's two-step method (get a noise profile, then apply) and its limit: good for hum, hiss and fan noise, not for traffic... manual.audacityteam.org Article · How Founders Use AI Noise Reduction Audacity Manual
  21. OpenAI's own detector, withdrawn on 20 July 2023 for low accuracy: 26% of AI text caught, 9% of human text wrongly flagged. openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text OpenAI
  22. Seven detectors flagged 61.22% of TOEFL essays by non-native writers as AI-generated while judging US students' essays almost... hai.stanford.edu Article · How Founders Use AI AI-detectors biased against non-native English writers Stanford HAI
  23. The paper behind the Stanford finding, with the data on how detectors penalise plainer writing. arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers Liang et al. (Stanford)
  24. A test of fourteen detectors concluding they are neither accurate nor reliable: all below 80% accuracy, only five above 70%,... link.springer.com Article · How Founders Use AI Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text Weber-Wulff et al., International Journal for Educational Integrity

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