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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
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.
eChai Partner Brands
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