Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. Figma's plans: the free Starter plan with unlimited drafts and 150 AI credits a day (up to 500 a month), then Professional at... figma.com Tool · Pricing page · Starting Up Figma pricing Figma In 5 answers
2. The actual eligibility bar for co-selling with AWS, in AWS's own words: marketplace listing, ACE eligibility, 5 launched and 15... Amazon Web Services Tool · 10 min read · GTM AWS ISV Accelerate Program Amazon Web Services In 5 answers
3. A calculator that works out your tax under both regimes from your salary and deductions, with the slabs and the deductions each... ClearTax Tool · Wealth Old vs new tax regime: calculator and comparison ClearTax In 5 answers
4. Google's plan page in rupees, including which plan unlocks tasks in Gemini. gemini.google Tool · How Founders Use AI Google AI Pro & Ultra: get access to Gemini 4 Argon & more Google In 5 answers
5. Free to start; Hobbyist $16 a month billed yearly for watermark-free 1080p exports, for editing a talking video by editing its... descript.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Descript pricing Descript In 5 answers
6. When you want a more polished, professional-looking site that can grow into multiple pages, Framer's free tier and templates... framer.com Tool · Tool · Starting Up Framer, design-led website builder Framer In 4 answers
7. The single-point access to tenders published across central ministries and departments, the tender side of government selling... eprocure.gov.in Tool · live tender portal · Starting Up Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP), Government Tenders National Informatics Centre / Ministry of Finance In 4 answers
8. A concrete, copyable Google Sheet (no paywall, no credit card) that builds your number bottoms-up from customer segments and... Visible.vc Template · ~15 min to fill in · Starting Up Total Addressable Market Template (free Google Sheet) Mike Preuss In 4 answers
9. Most registrars hook you with a cheap first year and quietly triple the renewal, which is exactly the trap a bootstrapped... Cloudflare Tool · Starting Up Cloudflare Registrar Cloudflare In 4 answers
10. When you just need a first draft on the page so a gateway or a signup form will work, a generator like Termly gets you a... Termly Tool · ~10 min to generate · Starting Up Free Privacy Policy Generator Termly In 4 answers
11. Before any of your outreach copy matters, you need the right person's actual email, and Hunter is the most widely used,... Hunter.io Tool · Starting Up Hunter (Email Finder and Verifier) Hunter In 4 answers
12. This is the spreadsheet to actually model your cap table forward three rounds before you sign the first term sheet. It adds... Foresight Template · spreadsheet template · Starting Up Cap Table and Exit Waterfall Modeling Tool (Foresight) Foresight (Taylor Davidson) In 4 answers
13. This is the tool for the exact fight you are having: it scores each founder across Idea, Business Plan, Domain Expertise, and... Carnegie Mellon University Tool · 15 min read · Starting Up The Founders' Pie Calculator Frank Demmler In 4 answers
14. This is the government's own sample SHA, published on the official Startup India (DPIIT) templates page alongside term sheets... Startup India Template · 13-page template · Starting Up Shareholder Agreement of Company (Sample SHA Template) Startup India (Invest India, DPIIT) In 4 answers
15. When you need people to feel the flow, not just read a pitch, a clickable Figma prototype gets you there without code. This... Figma Tool · Starting Up Guide to prototyping in Figma Figma In 4 answers
16. A free, no signup whiteboard with a deliberately hand drawn look, ideal for sketching screens and flows without falling into... Excalidraw Tool · Starting Up Excalidraw Excalidraw In 4 answers
17. Interactive comic style teardowns of real products like Airbnb, Duolingo, and Spotify that show UX and psychology principles in... Growth.Design Tool · browsable, ~5 min each · Starting Up Growth.Design Case Studies Growth.Design In 4 answers
18. If launching is a repeated habit rather than one event, you need a low-stakes place to keep launching, and Product Hunt is the... Product Hunt Tool · Web platform · Starting Up Product Hunt Product Hunt In 4 answers
19. A living list of problem areas YC actively wants founders to tackle, useful as raw material and as a way to spot where the... Y Combinator Tool · Browse · Starting Up Requests for Startups Y Combinator In 4 answers
20. This is the original Sequoia template that put "Why now" on the map as a named slide investors expect. It states the test... Sequoia Capital Template · 10 min read · Starting Up Writing a Business Plan Sequoia Capital In 4 answers
21. If you are registered as an MSME and a customer sits on your invoice past 45 days, this government portal is the actual legal... Ministry of MSME, Government of India Tool · Starting Up MSME SAMADHAAN - Delayed Payment Monitoring System Ministry of MSME, Government of India In 4 answers
22. Before you can interview a competitor's customers, you need to know where they actually spend time online. This tool searches... SparkToro Tool · Starting Up SparkToro SparkToro In 4 answers
23. An ICANN-accredited registrar's domain search with Indian prices. It lists a .in domain at ₹899 for the first year (₹1 on a... hostinger.com Tool · Starting Up Hostinger domain search and .in prices Hostinger In 4 answers
24. Framer is a designer's website builder with AI that writes and lays out pages. The pricing page lists a free plan on a Framer... framer.com Tool · Starting Up Framer pricing Framer In 4 answers

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