Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. A free, editable IP assignment template you can adapt as a starting point rather than facing a blank page. Use it to see the... Contractbook Template · Starting Up Intellectual Property (IP) Assignment Template Contractbook
2. A ready starting point for the job post you will need the day you commit to hiring, so you are not staring at a blank page. It... Yardstick Template · template · Starting Up Founding Engineer Job Description Template Yardstick
3. A free, dead-simple Kanban board is often all a small offshore team needs to make work-in-progress visible to everyone at once.... Trello (Atlassian) Tool · Starting Up Trello (shared Kanban board) Trello (Atlassian)
4. A concrete, copyable pattern for the written weekly update that replaces the status meeting, straight from a team that lives by... The GitLab Handbook Template · Short reference page · Starting Up Weekly Async Updates GitLab
5. A paid trial task only works if the task itself is well scoped, and this is a practical guide to writing one. It covers... DevSkills Template · Starting Up How to Create a Great Take-Home Coding Test Anton Fenske
6. This is the structured checklist an investor's technical reviewer runs, covering architecture, code quality, key-person risk,... CTO on Demand Template · checklist · Starting Up Technical Due Diligence Checklist (2026): What Investors Actually Examine CTO on Demand
7. This is a ready-to-run template for exactly the question you are asking: who is the single decider, and who merely contributes.... Atlassian Team Playbook Template · 10 min read · Starting Up DACI: A Decision-Making Framework Atlassian
8. A free video series from a designer who spent years teaching developers, walking you from fundamentals to real screens over... DesignCourse (YouTube) Course · Multi-video playlist · Starting Up Learn UI/UX in 30 Days Gary Simon
9. Instead of guessing hex codes, you pick text, background, primary, and accent colors and see them applied to a realistic... realtimecolors.com Tool · Free web tool · Starting Up Realtime Colors Juxtopposed
10. Mismatched, blown-up, or clashing icons make a product look amateur fast. Heroicons gives you one consistent, professionally... heroicons.com Tool · Free icon set · Starting Up Heroicons Steve Schoger and the Tailwind Labs team
11. Give it one accent color and it generates a full range of shades, from very light to very dark, that stay balanced across the... uicolors.app Tool · Free web tool · Starting Up UI Colors: Tailwind CSS Color Generator UI Colors
12. This is the free hub the short answer points you to. It walks you through frames, shapes, text, and prototyping by building one... Figma Learn Course · Approx. 2 to 3 hours, self-paced · Starting Up Figma Design for beginners (official course) Figma
13. An India-focused program on going from an idea to a working prototype using AI and modern tools. It is aimed at founders here... Google for Startups Course · Short program, self-paced · Starting Up Startup School: Prompt to Prototype (India) Google for Startups
14. A crisp reference on the research finding that people perceive attractive products as more usable and forgive their small... Laws of UX Tool · 5 min read plus reference library · Starting Up Aesthetic-Usability Effect Jon Yablonski
15. A searchable library of the biases and principles behind user behavior, each with a short example. It goes wider than the core... Growth.Design Tool · Browse as needed · Starting Up 106 Cognitive Biases and Principles That Affect Your UX Growth.Design
16. Free, ready-to-use scripts (including a mobile-app version), observer instructions, and a form for noting the top three... Sensible (Steve Krug) Template · Starting Up Usability Testing Scripts, Observer Forms, and Checklists (Downloads) Steve Krug
17. A ready to use script for running your own usability test, from Krug's book. You do not have to invent how to phrase tasks or... Steve Krug (sensible.com) Template · PDF, a few pages · Starting Up Usability Test Script (from Rocket Surgery Made Easy) Steve Krug
18. A catalogue of common interface patterns (registration, pricing tables, search, empty states, and more) with several real... UI-Patterns.com Tool · reference library · Starting Up UI-Patterns.com UI-Patterns.com
19. A free, structured course that takes you from the basics of why pages are slow through images, fonts, JavaScript, and lazy... web.dev (Google) Course · Multi module course · Starting Up Learn Performance Google Chrome team
20. This runs your site on real devices from real locations at set connection speeds, including Slow 3G, so you get an honest... WebPageTest (Catchpoint) Tool · Web tool · Starting Up WebPageTest WebPageTest
21. A well curated reference for what good type looks like in the wild, with recommended fonts and pairings. When you are unsure... Typewolf Tool · Starting Up Typewolf Jeremiah Shoaf
22. This is a ready-made, accessible pattern for error messages with real wording examples you can adapt (it even shows the... GOV.UK Design System Template · reference · Starting Up Error message component GOV.UK / Government Digital Service
23. Professionally designed, ready to drop in UI blocks and page templates from the makers of Tailwind CSS. It lets you assemble a... Tailwind CSS Tool · Starting Up Tailwind Plus (Tailwind UI) Tailwind CSS
24. Google's open design system with detailed guidance on layout, color, type, and components, plus ready implementations.... Google Tool · Starting Up Material Design 3 Google

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