Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. Most contract templates online are US-shaped, and this one is genuinely built for the Indian context: it covers IP assignment... Contract Shield Template · Downloadable Word template · Starting Up Software Development Agreement Template (India) Contract Shield
2. A contract clause is your legal safeguard, but the practical one is making sure the repo lives under an account you control... GitHub Docs Tool · ~10 min read · Starting Up About organizations GitHub
3. Most agency cost calculators are just email-capture forms that make you wait for a salesperson, but this one actually computes... Smol Launch Tool · Starting Up Free MVP & App Development Cost Calculator Smol Launch
4. A shared board is the concrete accountability mechanism: every task has an owner, a status, and a due window that everyone can... Linear Tool · Free up to 250 issues, paid from 10 dollars per user per month · Starting Up Linear Linear
5. You cannot fully remove the risk of one person holding all the knowledge, but you can hedge it, and the cheapest hedge is... GitHub Tool · One template file plus a short guide · Starting Up readme-best-practices: a starter template for project READMEs jehna
6. If you have no warm intros, you need a pond stocked with people who actually want startup work, and Wellfound (formerly... Wellfound Tool · Ongoing platform · Starting Up Hire Startup Talent on Wellfound Wellfound
7. UX Writing Hub is a well known home for this craft, and this guide is a browsable reference of real product screenshots showing... UX Writing Hub Tool · Starting Up Microcopy in a Nutshell: Past, Present and Future Anja Wedberg (UX Writing Hub)
8. This is the practical answer to the scariest part of multilingual design: a button that reads Submit in English can blow out to... Lokalise Tool · Plugin, set up in minutes · Starting Up Lokalise for Figma (localization plugin) Lokalise
9. A weekly ship cadence needs a container that resets every week on its own, otherwise the discipline lives in your head and... Linear Tool · Docs page plus free tool · Starting Up Cycles (Linear Docs) Linear
10. When you are chasing your first 10 customers, you do not need Salesforce, you need one place to see who you contacted, who... Notion Marketplace Tool · Free Notion template · Starting Up Simple Sales CRM & Pipeline (Notion template) Laura Miller
11. For Indian B2B, LinkedIn is closer to a real launch surface than Product Hunt ever was, because the decision-makers you are... LinkedIn Tool · Ongoing · Starting Up LinkedIn LinkedIn
12. Sustaining a drip by hand every single day is where most founders quit, so this is the practical tool that keeps it going:... Typefully Tool · web and mobile app · Starting Up Typefully: write, schedule, and publish social posts and threads Typefully
13. When the call goes well, the follow-up needs to go out fast, and a reusable structure is what makes that happen without you... Superhuman Blog Template · ~12 min read, 18 templates · Starting Up 18 Sales Follow-Up Email Templates That Actually Get Responses Superhuman
14. If payments keep landing late, the fix is often to stop relying on the buyer to remember and set up an auto-debit mandate... Razorpay Tool · Starting Up Razorpay e-NACH and e-Mandate for Recurring Payments Razorpay
15. When you are the only salesperson, the win is getting deals out of your head and into one place today, and HubSpot's free tier... HubSpot Tool · Starting Up HubSpot CRM for Startups (free forever plan) HubSpot
16. Before a CRM is worth the overhead, a clean spreadsheet is often the honest answer, and this one downloads with no email wall... OnePageCRM Template · Starting Up Free Sales Pipeline Template (Excel and Google Sheets) OnePageCRM
17. Before you hit send, paste your draft subject in here and it scores it for spam risk, clarity, and curiosity, so you catch the... SuperSend Tool · Starting Up Free Email Subject Line Tester (clarity, curiosity, and spam risk) SuperSend
18. Knowing the rules is one thing, adding a compliant opt-out and address to your emails without bugging an engineer is another,... Sequenzy Tool · Starting Up Email Footer Generator (CAN-SPAM and GDPR) Sequenzy
19. Before you send a real campaign, this tests exactly where your email lands across Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and others, so you... GlockApps Tool · Starting Up GlockApps Inbox Insight: Email Deliverability and Inbox Placement Test GlockApps
20. Warming a new domain by hand means sending a trickle of real, replied-to emails for weeks, and this automates that slow ramp... Instantly Tool · Starting Up Instantly Email Warmup Instantly
21. A guessed or bulk-sourced address is a gamble, and one bounce-heavy send tells Gmail and Outlook you are not a real sender,... zerobounce.net Tool · Starting Up ZeroBounce Email Verifier ZeroBounce
22. Once you suspect something is dragging replies down, guessing is slow: Smartlead lets you run variant tests inside a single... Smartlead Tool · ~10 min read plus tool · Starting Up Cold Email A/B Testing in Smartlead (Variants + Reply Tracking) Smartlead