Explore · The library
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.
- What a paraphrase is, and the rule that information taken from a source still needs that source named. owl.purdue.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Paraphrasing Purdue Online Writing Lab
- The free reader for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android: view, comment, highlight, fill forms and sign without a subscription; text... adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe
- A free, fast, small reader for Windows that also opens EPUB, MOBI and comic files. sumatrapdfreader.org Tool · How Founders Use AI Sumatra PDF Sumatra PDF (open source)
- Apple's steps for the Reduce File Size Quartz filter, the options for optimising images, and the warning that quality may drop. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Reduce the size of a PDF in Preview on Mac Apple Support
- Adobe's free online compressor. Your file is handled on Adobe's servers and deleted unless you sign in to save it. adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Compress PDFs for free Adobe
- Grammarly's checker, which compares text against billions of web pages. grammarly.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Plagiarism Checker Grammarly
- A checker built to find copies of a web page's text elsewhere on the internet, with a paid Premium tier. copyscape.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Copyscape Copyscape
- Search academic papers and theses for an exact phrase in quotation marks to find where it was published. scholar.google.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Google Scholar Google
- India's rules for theses and research papers: similarity up to 10% is Level 0 with no penalty, and penalties rise at 10-40%,... ugc.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2018 University Grants Commission
- An Indian plagiarism checker used by universities and publishers, with options for individuals. drillbitglobal.com Tool · How Founders Use AI DrillBit DrillBit
- Apple's steps for scanning a document into a note, with automatic capture when the page edges are detected. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan text and documents in Notes using the iPhone camera Apple Support
- Google's steps for scanning receipts, letters and statements in the Drive app and saving them as searchable PDFs. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan documents with Google Drive (Android) Google Drive Help
- Adobe's free scanner app: perspective correction, glare and shadow removal, and OCR for editable, searchable PDFs. adobe.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Adobe Scan Adobe
- The 29 June 2020 order under section 69A of the IT Act blocking 59 apps; Cam Scanner is number 14 on the list. pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Government bans 59 mobile apps Ministry of Electronics and IT (PIB)
- The government's document wallet for fetching, storing and sharing documents issued directly by departments. digilocker.gov.in Tool · How Founders Use AI DigiLocker Government of India
- A resume builder whose first resume is free forever, with unlimited downloads and no hidden fees. flowcv.com Tool · How Founders Use AI FlowCV FlowCV
- A free, open-source builder with no ads or paywall, PDF and Word downloads, and a readability check that reads your resume the... rxresu.me Tool · How Founders Use AI Reactive Resume Reactive Resume
- An AI resume writer and editor with keyword targeting: free to start, Pro at $29 a month, or a Lifetime plan at $149 once. rezi.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Rezi pricing Rezi
- AI writer and 40-plus templates, paid once: $48 for a year or $18 for three months, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. kickresume.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Kickresume pricing Kickresume
- Free CV templates many engineering and research students use, edited in the browser. overleaf.com Template · How Founders Use AI LaTeX templates for CVs and resumes Overleaf
- The plain rules of a good resume, action verbs and all, which no tool replaces. careerservices.fas.harvard.edu Guide · How Founders Use AI Harvard College guide to creating a strong resume Harvard Office of Career Services
- Google's course on using Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Career Dreamer to plan a search, tailor applications and practise... grow.google Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI Google
- Where to enrol in the course for free; a four-course beginner series of about 8 hours at your own pace. coursera.org Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI (Coursera) Google Career Certificates
- India's job platform for freshers, part-time, work-from-home and jobs for women, listing more than 50 lakh openings from 7... apna.co Tool · How Founders Use AI Apna Apna
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.