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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. Unpacks Kevin Roose's famous non-coder experiment and what it really proved. itrevolution.com Article · How Founders Use AI The New York Times just made the case for vibe coding IT Revolution (Gene Kim's publisher)
  2. A tidy timeline of how one tweet became a product category. blog.vibecoder.me Article · How Founders Use AI The History of Vibe Coding, From Tweet to $4.7B Industry Vibe Coder Blog
  3. Includes non-coder founder stories like a Brazilian builder with 10,000+ users. mergesociety.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding 2025: The AI Programming Revolution Merge Society
  4. An India-rooted indie community's read on what the shift means for bootstrappers. superframeworks.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding Hits a Tipping Point: What Indie Hackers Need to Know Superframeworks (Ayush Chaturvedi)
  5. The most famous ship-fast story, with the receipts and the prompts. levels.io Article · How Founders Use AI fly.pieter.com: my vibecoded flight simulator that hit $1M ARR in 17 days Pieter Levels
  6. Solo founder to $1M ARR in three weeks, told step by step. lennysnewsletter.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo Lenny's Podcast
  7. Watch an idea become a vibe-coded prototype live in under an hour. open.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI How to build a $1M+ startup using AI (full tutorial) My First Million (Sam Parr + Greg Isenberg)
  8. Karpathy ships a real paid app and candidly logs every speed bump. karpathy.bearblog.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding MenuGen Andrej Karpathy
  9. An unvarnished budget, timeline, and mistakes ledger from one founder. hackernoon.com Article · How Founders Use AI I spent 30 days vibe coding an MVP, burned $127, broke everything, found PMF HackerNoon contributor
  10. Honest about what AI accelerated and what it did not. indiehackers.com Article · How Founders Use AI I shipped a productivity SaaS in 30 days as a solo dev Indie Hackers community
  11. A replicable evening-long workflow breakdown, tool by tool. forum.cursor.com Article · How Founders Use AI Built a full SaaS MVP in one evening with Cursor + Claude Code Cursor community forum
  12. First line of code to hosted product in four documented days. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI How I built a SaaS in 4 days using Cursor (step-by-step) Surendra Pandar
  13. Ten real builds dissected, including what shipped and what stalled. justinmckelvey.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding Examples: 10 Real Projects Reviewed Justin McKelvey
  14. The viral proof that a non-coder can ship paid software (read the sequel too). x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI leo: 'my SaaS was built with Cursor, zero hand written code' Leo (Enrichlead)
  15. Includes the $37-to-launch invoicing tool story with real numbers. stormy.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI The Non-Technical Founder's Guide to Launching an MVP Stormy AI
  16. Documents the $456K ARR in 45 days Lovable outlier and the new normal. anything.com Article · How Founders Use AI What it means to be an indie hacker in 2026 Anything
  17. A four-stage process for using speed to validate before committing. blog.vibecoder.me Guide · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding for validation: test 10 ideas, build the right one Vibe Coder Blog
  18. Video · How Founders Use AI I built an AI SaaS with Claude Code: full architecture Independent builder (YouTube)
  19. What worked and what did not across a complete AI-only build. pub.towardsai.net Article · How Founders Use AI Zero hand-coding: I built a full-stack app using only AI Towards AI contributor
  20. Video · How Founders Use AI How I built an app with Lovable in under 1 hour Independent builder (YouTube)
  21. Video · How Founders Use AI How to build your first app with Lovable in just 10 minutes Independent builder (YouTube)
  22. The definitive essay on why the last 30% still needs engineering. addyo.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI The 70% problem: hard truths about AI-assisted coding Addy Osmani (Google)
  23. When the biggest AI coding tool's CEO warns you, listen. fortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds 'shaky foundations' Fortune
  24. The world's best-known AI educator punctures the effortless myth. developers.slashdot.org Article · How Founders Use AI Andrew Ng: vibe coding is a bad name for a very real and exhausting job Slashdot / Andrew Ng

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The hubs

Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1327 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 379 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 512 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 165 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 360 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 425 terms