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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. Groww's price list: Rs 0 account opening and maintenance, equity brokerage of Rs 20 or 0.1% per executed order, whichever is... groww.in Tool · Wealth Groww brokerage and charges Groww In 2 answers
  2. Video · How Founders Use AI Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) Y Combinator / Andrej Karpathy In 2 answers
  3. Hard data: even technical YC founders let AI write 95% of the code. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI A quarter of YC's cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated TechCrunch In 2 answers
  4. India's sharpest business publication on the homegrown vibe-coding wave. the-ken.com Article · How Founders Use AI How SoftBank-backed Emergent is scripting a vibe-coding playbook The Ken In 2 answers
  5. Quantifies the rebuild bill waiting at the end of unreviewed AI code. getcreatr.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding technical debt: 8,000 startups are now paying to rebuild Creatr In 2 answers
  6. What month six looks like on a codebase nobody understands. hackernoon.com Article · How Founders Use AI The vibe coding hangover: what happens when AI writes 95% of your code? HackerNoon In 2 answers
  7. The definitive definition piece everyone else quotes. simonwillison.net Article · How Founders Use AI Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) Simon Willison In 2 answers
  8. A creator-economy lens on why non-coders adopted the term. news.thepublishpress.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding, Explained The Publish Press In 2 answers
  9. The AI-engineering community's annotated read of the keynote. latent.space Article · How Founders Use AI Andrej Karpathy on Software 3.0 Latent Space (swyx) In 2 answers
  10. The official handbook: four levels of prompting, from training wheels to meta. lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI The Lovable Prompting Bible Lovable In 2 answers
  11. An open-source scaffold that forces spec, plan, tasks, then code. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI GitHub Spec Kit GitHub In 2 answers
  12. The founding engineers' own prompting and planning habits. every.to Podcast · How Founders Use AI How to use Claude Code like the people who built it Every (Dan Shipper with Anthropic engineers) In 2 answers
  13. The canonical cautionary tale, live-tweeted as it happened. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI leo: 'guys, I'm under attack' Leo (Enrichlead) In 2 answers
  14. The full Enrichlead post-mortem with the lessons spelled out. pivot-to-ai.com Article · How Founders Use AI 'Guys, I'm under attack': AI vibe coding in the wild Pivot to AI In 2 answers
  15. Builders sharing which mistakes they personally shipped. indiehackers.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding has a security problem Indie Hackers In 2 answers
  16. A roundup of early incidents and the patterns they share. techstartups.com Article · How Founders Use AI When vibe coding goes wrong Tech Startups In 2 answers
  17. Security, scaling, and survival tactics in one founder-level doc. shareuhack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The real cost of vibe coding in production: a practical survival guide ShareUHack In 2 answers
  18. The Indian breakout story, with numbers verified by press. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI India's vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M in 8 months TechCrunch In 2 answers
  19. The growth-strategy teardown founders can actually copy. growthunhinged.com Article · How Founders Use AI Europe's fastest growing startup? Lovable's growth story Growth Unhinged (Kyle Poyar) In 2 answers
  20. Institutional-grade research on the category leader. research.contrary.com Article · How Founders Use AI Lovable business breakdown and founding story Contrary Research In 2 answers
  21. Survey data on solo AI-built businesses below the headlines. freemius.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI-driven, founder-led: the state of micro-SaaS Freemius In 2 answers
  22. Hands-on with the a16z-backed prompt-to-native-app tool. nocode.mba Guide · How Founders Use AI Rork AI review and tutorial: build mobile apps No Code MBA In 2 answers
  23. Video · How Founders Use AI Lovable FULL Tutorial for Complete Beginners Tech With Tim In 2 answers
  24. A tested shortlist for the step after the spreadsheet, from a team that reviews tools for a living. zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI The 9 best internal tool builders Zapier In 2 answers

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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
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