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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. A prolific builder who ships on all of these ranks them by founder use case. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI John Rush's AI builder rankings thread John Rush
  2. The Surat-born builder giving Indian founders a local-first alternative. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI Rocket.new, one of India's first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel TechCrunch
  3. The India-market lens on the whole category, including Emergent and Rocket.new. forbesindia.com Article · How Founders Use AI Talk of tech town: how vibe coding is transforming the industry Forbes India
  4. Maps the full competitive landscape so you know what exists beyond the famous names. vestbee.com Article · How Founders Use AI Not just Lovable: who is driving the vibe coding revolution Vestbee
  5. The terse official reference for what v0 listens to in a prompt. v0.app Guide · How Founders Use AI Text prompting (v0 docs) Vercel
  6. How to chain prompts and Design Mode edits instead of fighting one giant prompt. vercel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Maximizing outputs with v0: from UI generation to code creation Vercel
  7. Before-and-after prompt pairs, so you see exactly what specificity buys you. uxdesign.cc Article · How Founders Use AI Figma Make prompts, with real examples Lindsey Norberg (UX Collective)
  8. A full prototype's actual prompt history, warts and all. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI 50 prompts towards a Figma Make prototype Jelle Mannaerts
  9. Community-tested prompt structures from the ADPList design mentorship network. adplist.substack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Ultimate Figma Make prompt guide Felix Lee and Avani (ADPList)
  10. Why 'clean and modern' is a useless instruction and what to say instead. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI This one change in your prompt can make your AI designs look awesome Ajay Khatri Chhetri
  11. Three real prototypes with the exact prompts used, each under 15 minutes. blog.techforproduct.com Article · How Founders Use AI Practical examples of AI prototyping Colin Matthews (Tech for Product)
  12. The screenshot-first technique: matching an existing design beats describing one. lennysnewsletter.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to build prototypes that actually look like your product Colin Matthews (Lenny's Newsletter)
  13. Copy-paste prompt recipes for making Lovable output look designed. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Design apps like a pro in Lovable, in 3 easy steps Damien Ghader
  14. A complete Lovable prompting course compressed into one thread. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI A full course on Lovable (thread) Alex Prompter
  15. The official best-practices thread, handy to skim mid-build. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Complete Lovable prompting guide with best practices (thread) Lovable
  16. A current third-party synthesis of what works in v0 prompts. sureprompts.com Guide · How Founders Use AI v0 prompting guide: how to prompt Vercel v0 SurePrompts
  17. Power users comparing notes on prompt patterns the docs miss. community.vercel.com Thread · How Founders Use AI How to prompt v0 (Vercel community discussion) Vercel community
  18. The clearest diagnosis of why models regress to the mean, with five concrete fixes. superdesign.dev Article · How Founders Use AI How to make AI UI look less generic: 5 fixes Superdesign
  19. Names the exact tells (Tailwind blue, card-in-card, bounce animations) so you can hunt them down. smoothui.dev Article · How Founders Use AI AI design slop: why AI-generated UI looks generic, and the fix SmoothUI
  20. A checklist with visual examples you can run against your own screens. gendesigns.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Why your AI-generated UI looks bad: 15 mistakes and how to fix every one GenDesigns
  21. An honest first-person build log of going from slop to shippable. alexlavaee.me Article · How Founders Use AI Why my AI-generated UI looked generic (and how I fixed it) Alex Lavaee
  22. A working designer's step-separated workflow: direction in text first, code second. pub.towardsai.net Article · How Founders Use AI How I design UI with help of AI tools, without ending up with slop Nishkarsh Gupta
  23. Developer-level fixes for the giveaway patterns AI code ships with. dev.to Article · How Founders Use AI How to fix the AI-generated look in your frontend Alan West (DEV)
  24. A practical loop: generate with guardrails, critique, fix the worst issue, repeat. dev.to Article · How Founders Use AI How to break the AI-generated UI curse A. Shokn (DEV)

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