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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. Why text-to-SQL goes wrong and the guardrails that keep answers trustworthy. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Bridging Natural Language and Databases: Best Practices for LLM-Generated SQL Vi Q. Ha
  2. The most credible security team in cloud lays out exactly which misconfigurations recur. wiz.io Article · How Founders Use AI Wiz Research Finds Risks in 20% of Vibe-Coded Apps Wiz Research
  3. 5,600 apps scanned, 2,000+ vulnerabilities and 400+ exposed secrets; the scale of the problem in numbers. escape.tech Article · How Founders Use AI Methodology: 2k+ Vulnerabilities in Vibe-Coded Apps Escape
  4. The single most actionable checklist: proxy API calls, store secrets in edge functions, lock down RLS. vietanh.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Securing Vibe-Coded Apps: A Practical Guide to Not Getting Hacked Viet Anh
  5. The platform's own hardening guidance, worth reading because its defaults caused the incidents. lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Lovable: Secure Vibe Coding Lovable
  6. The mainstream report on 380,000 scanned apps with 5,000 leaking sensitive data. axios.com Article · How Founders Use AI Thousands of AI-built apps exposed sensitive corporate and personal data Axios
  7. A clear technical autopsy of the anon-key-plus-no-RLS pattern behind the leaks. superblocks.com Article · How Founders Use AI Lovable Vulnerability Explained: How 170+ Apps Were Exposed Superblocks
  8. Once basics work, these are the multi-tenant patterns that keep working at scale. makerkit.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Supabase RLS Best Practices: Production Patterns Makerkit
  9. 93% of tech leaders worry about vibe-coded tools in production; useful ammunition for taking security seriously. retool.com Article · How Founders Use AI The State of AI Governance in 2026 Retool
  10. A printable pre-launch checklist to run before real data enters the tool. catdoes.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The Vibe Coding Security Checklist CatDoes
  11. Benchmarks: 47% of operations teams already run agents, so you can see where you stand. zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI State of agentic AI adoption survey Zapier
  12. Data on platform share and the shift to agent-based architectures, so you bet on the right horse. felixkemeth.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI The State of AI Automation in 2025 Felix Kemeth
  13. Agents that live inside your database and act on records, a different pattern worth knowing. airtable.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Build your first AI app with Omni and Field Agents Airtable
  14. An academic, vendor-neutral profile of what Zapier Agents can and cannot do. aiagentindex.mit.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Zapier Agents: 2025 AI Agent Index MIT AI Agent Index
  15. A wider map of the agent landscape when your automation needs outgrow one platform. zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI The best AI agents for enterprises Zapier
  16. An AI engineer explains why generated debt is invisible to the person who shipped it. zenvanriel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding Technical Debt Crisis: What Engineers Must Know Zen van Riel
  17. A rescue shop describes what they find when founders bring in broken AI-built tools. amplifilabs.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Hidden Risks of Vibe Coding and the Technical Debt It Leaves Behind Amplifi Labs
  18. Peer-level research, not vendor content, on how vibe-coded systems degrade. arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding in Practice: Flow, Technical Debt (research paper) arXiv researchers
  19. An honest longitudinal account of where AI-first building holds up and where it collapses. arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI Context Before Code: An Experience Report on Vibe Coding in Practice arXiv researchers
  20. The strongest version of the case against, worth absorbing before you disagree with it. forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company Jason Wingard (Forbes)
  21. A practical decision framework for the exact hire-or-not moment. calgaryappdeveloper.ca Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coded Projects: What They're Good For and When to Go Pro Calgary App Developer
  22. The person who coined the term reflects on what the year taught everyone. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Karpathy's one-year vibe coding retrospective Andrej Karpathy
  23. Traces how a throwaway tweet became production practice, and what got lost on the way. coderabbit.ai Article · How Founders Use AI A semantic history of vibe coding: tweet, meme and workflow CodeRabbit
  24. A working developer's argument that the label hides the discipline the practice needs. peteroome.com Article · How Founders Use AI Stop saying 'vibe coding' Pete Roome

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1046 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 352 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 482 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 154 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 278 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 390 terms
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