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.
- Roblox Studio's built-in AI helper: answers questions, generates and explains code, makes materials, 3D meshes and procedural... create.roblox.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Assistant for Studio Roblox
- Text or image to 3D model, priced in rupees: Free with 100 credits a month under CC BY 4.0, Pro ₹1,699 a month for 1,000... meshy.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Meshy pricing (India) Meshy
- Claude runs code to analyse uploaded data and build spreadsheets with working formulas, on every plan from Free up, so a... support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Create and edit files with Claude Anthropic
- Onshape's AI that answers design and CAD questions in plain language with source chips, inside the cloud CAD tool. onshape.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Onshape AI Advisor PTC Onshape
- Free for personal projects with public documents; Standard at $1,500 a user a year with private storage; Professional at $2,500... onshape.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Onshape pricing PTC Onshape
- Computed answers for maths, units and engineering formulas, with Pro adding uploads of your own data, images and files. wolframalpha.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Wolfram|Alpha Pro Wolfram
- An Indian health platform with EkaScribe, voice-to-prescription note-taking, an EMR built for ABDM records, and clinical... eka.care Tool · How Founders Use AI Eka Care for clinicians Eka Care
- Ambient clinical documentation built by clinicians and used by more than 300 health systems, with customer results on time... abridge.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Abridge Abridge
- Microsoft's clinical assistant for physicians, nurses and radiologists, from ambient documentation to information at the point... microsoft.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Microsoft Dragon Copilot Microsoft
- Imaging AI that reads chest X-rays and CT scans, used at 5,500-plus sites in 105-plus countries, including tuberculosis... qure.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Qure.ai Qure.ai
- WHO's guidance on where general AI models help in clinical care and where the risks lie, the frame for using any assistant with... who.int Guide · How Founders Use AI Ethics and governance of AI for health: guidance on large multi-modal models World Health Organization
- Sajith Pai's India1/India2/India3 framework and the Indus Valley report are the sharpest public analysis of who in India... sajithpai.com Article · essays + annual report · Starting Up Sajith Pai on the Indus Valley Report & the Indian market (India1/2/3) Sajith Pai (Blume Ventures)
- An AI agent that builds and deploys full-stack apps with hosting, database, and auth built in, bridging no-code speed and real,... replit.com Tool · platform · Starting Up Replit, Build Apps with AI Replit
- A real Indian maker story: Bengaluru's Karthik Sridharan scaled Flexiple to seven figures on no-code. Proof that a... Makerpad (Zapier) Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up How a Former Salesman Co-Founded a Seven-Figure Business on Bubble Karthik Sridharan (Flexiple) via Makerpad
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Video · ~10 min · Starting Up
How to Find a Technical Cofounder
Michael Seibel (YC)
- A free, well-maintained learning hub from the industry-standard design tool, covering the fundamentals a founder needs to... figma.com Course · self-paced · Starting Up Figma, Learn Design Figma
- India's largest volunteer-driven product community (Bengaluru-founded, 25k+ members) with a practitioner blog on strategy,... theproductfolks.com Article · ~10 min read + community · Starting Up The Product Folks, India's Product Community The Product Folks
- Shows exactly how top startups turned early cold/warm outreach into paying customers, with real message-level detail. Grounds... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to win your first 10 customers via direct outreach Lenny Rachitsky
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Video · Starting Up
Complete Bubble.io Course for Beginners: Build an App in 2025
YouTube
- A long conversation with the founder of TSMC, one of the most consequential companies most people have never studied. It is a... Acquired Podcast · ~1 hr 30 min · Starting Up TSMC Founder Morris Chang (Acquired) Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- When you are entering an industry you have never worked in, the real risk is being fooled by a surface understanding and... Scott H. Young Book · ~304 pages · Starting Up Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Scott H. Young
- When you start with no credibility in a market, customer interviews are how you borrow the insiders' knowledge, and doing them... Lean Startup Circle (Medium) Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up 16 Tips for Great Customer Development Interviews in B2B Etienne Garbugli
- When two ideas are stuck in a loop of gut feel versus gut feel, the fastest way out is to agree on what actually matters and... Savio Template · ~15 min read + free Google Sheet · Starting Up The Weighted Scoring Model: Guide, Template, and Calculator Kareem Mayan
- This short piece names the exact bias that trips up experts: once you know something deeply, you literally cannot imagine not... Harvard Business Review Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up The Curse of Knowledge Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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.