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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.
- OpenAI's documentation for Codex in the app, CLI, IDE and cloud, including how cloud tasks run after you close the laptop. learn.chatgpt.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Codex docs OpenAI
- Cursor's own post on the acquisition, which explains why its cheaper plans centre on xAI's Grok models. cursor.com Article · How Founders Use AI Cursor is now a part of SpaceX Cursor
- A ten-minute official walkthrough of the prompting loop: one outcome, success criteria, boundaries, test in Preview, then one... docs.replit.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Build your first app Replit
- A free structured course on writing a product brief, building two apps and debugging with an agent. deeplearning.ai Course · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding 101 with Replit DeepLearning.AI and Replit
- A Google engineering lead's five principles: start from a short brief, let the agent draft the detail, plan in read-only mode... addyosmani.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to write a good spec for AI agents Addy Osmani
- Shows the three files a working spec splits into: requirements with acceptance criteria, a design doc, and a task list you track. kiro.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Specs (Kiro docs) Kiro (AWS)
- The open format for a README written for coding agents: setup and test commands and code style, read by Codex, Copilot and others. agents.md Guide · How Founders Use AI AGENTS.md AGENTS.md
- The official first session, step by step: install commands for Mac, Linux, WSL and Windows, signing in, a first question, a... code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Code quickstart Anthropic
- System requirements and the other install routes (Homebrew, WinGet, apt, dnf), plus how to fix a PATH that cannot find claude. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Advanced setup Anthropic
- Installing and using the VS Code extension for anyone who would rather not work in a bare terminal. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use Claude Code in VS Code Anthropic
- A free course on steering long sessions with plan mode, writing a lean CLAUDE.md, and verifying what Claude did. anthropic.skilljar.com Course · How Founders Use AI Claude Code in Action Anthropic Academy
- Google's explainer, with a table separating agents, assistants and bots by how much they decide on their own. cloud.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI What are AI agents? Google Cloud
- A free course unit that explains an agent as a model that reasons, plans and acts through tools, with simple diagrams. huggingface.co Course · How Founders Use AI What are agents? (Hugging Face Agents Course) Hugging Face
- $50 of free credits that last 7 days, then Team from $29.99 a month for 3,000 credits. lindy.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Lindy pricing Lindy
- The open-source Python library for building agents with tools, handoffs and guardrails once you are ready to write code. openai.github.io Guide · How Founders Use AI OpenAI Agents SDK OpenAI
- The library behind Claude Code, for building your own agent that reads files, runs commands and uses MCP tools. code.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude Agent SDK overview Anthropic
- The specification itself, the source to read when you need exact behaviour. modelcontextprotocol.io Guide · How Founders Use AI MCP specification (2026-07-28) Model Context Protocol
- How to add an MCP server to Claude, which plans allow it (Free users get one), and the security points to check first. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP Anthropic
- How OpenAI's models call remote MCP servers, showing the standard works across companies. developers.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI MCP and connectors (OpenAI API) OpenAI
- The official directory of public MCP servers, the place to look before you build one. registry.modelcontextprotocol.io Tool · How Founders Use AI MCP Registry Model Context Protocol
- Gamma's own account of each plan: Free with credits that do not refresh and up to 10 slides a prompt, Plus with 1,500 credits a... help.gamma.app Guide · How Founders Use AI Gamma plans: Free, Plus, Pro and Ultra Gamma
- What uses credits (generating, AI edits, images) and what is free (editing by hand), and how a free account earns 200 credits... help.gamma.app Guide · How Founders Use AI How do credits work in Gamma? Gamma
- Confirms Gamma takes UPI in India as well as cards, which matters when an international card is declined. help.gamma.app Guide · How Founders Use AI What payment methods does Gamma accept? Gamma
- Go at $10.75 a month billed yearly for iPad and web, Pro at $33.25 with the desktop modeller and 2D documentation, and Studio... sketchup.trimble.com Tool · How Founders Use AI SketchUp plans and pricing Trimble
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.