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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.
- Lovable's own usage data on who builds software now: 80% in non-technical roles, with India among the largest paying markets. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI A first look at the build economy Lovable
- Cursor's own post on the acquisition, which explains why its cheaper plans now centre on xAI's Grok models. cursor.com Article · How Founders Use AI Cursor is now a part of SpaceX Cursor
- The model behind Claude Code today, and the launch that raised Claude Code usage limits on paid plans. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic
- A company that built a new product line in one weekend and took it to paying customers, told step by step. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI How Nursa built a new product in 48 hours and changed how its entire company ships software Lovable
- Replit's launch of Cloud Agents: a non-engineer describes a change, the agent tests it and opens a pull request, and an... blog.replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI Anyone can now bring their ideas into the company codebase Replit
- How to write your conventions down once as a skill so you stop repeating the same context in every prompt. lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Turn repeated instructions into reusable skills in Lovable Lovable
- What the automatic scan checks before you publish (missing RLS, exposed data, authorisation gaps) and when to run the deeper... lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI How Lovable protects your apps automatically Lovable
- Explains why reading your code is not enough and how a test that attacks the running app finds the open doors, with real examples. blog.replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI Black-box pen tests on Replit Replit
- Lovable's own account of public projects' code and chat history being readable for eleven weeks, and why project visibility... lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Our response to the April 2026 incident Lovable
- Lovable's own checklist for founders about to launch: running the scanner early, sensitive data, and preparing for real traffic. lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI How to build a safe, scalable business on Lovable Lovable
- Lovable's launch of its built-in backend: a database, sign-up and log-in, and storage by telling it what you want, with no... lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Lovable Cloud and AI Lovable
- Replit's own explanation of Free Mode, where everyday tasks stop using credits on the $20 Core plan. blog.replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI Replit Introduces Free Mode to Expand What is Possible with AI Replit
- Lovable's own funding post at a $13.3 billion valuation, and its plan to move from building apps to running businesses on them. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI We just raised $400M in Series C funding to help people run their businesses Lovable
- Google's guide to building a native Android app from a prompt, previewing it in the browser and publishing it to the Play Store... ai.google.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Build Android apps in Google AI Studio Google
- Shows how a draft gives you a separate copy with its own chat and preview, so nothing reaches your live app until you accept it. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing drafts: an easier way to collaborate and explore new ideas Lovable
- Anthropic's data that Claude use has moved from conversations to long-running agentic tasks, and what people produce with them. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences Anthropic
- The current MCP spec release from its maintainers: a stateless core and stronger authorisation, for whoever on your team runs... blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Article · How Founders Use AI The 2026-07-28 Specification MCP project
- Shows how to hand Claude a whole report or deck from a conversation and let it keep working after you close the laptop. claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude Anthropic
- Where ChatGPT's browsing agent lives now: Chat, Work and Codex in one desktop app, with Work handling research and finished files. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Moving to the new ChatGPT desktop app OpenAI Help Center
- What happened to Atlas and where its browsing moved, for anyone who set up their research around it. pcmag.com Article · How Founders Use AI OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch PCMag
- Short report on Seedance 2.5: 30-second clips in one run from up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips. technode.com Article · How Founders Use AI ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model TechNode
- What Suno v6 is, the licensed Warner and BMG recordings behind it, and what each plan allows. musicradar.com Article · How Founders Use AI Suno has rebuilt its AI music models from scratch with licensed music MusicRadar
- The suit against Suno v6, which matters before you put an AI track in a paid ad. musicradar.com Article · How Founders Use AI “Suno’s v6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree”: Universal and Sony sue AI firm over continued copyright infringement in its new model MusicRadar
- OpenAI's launch post: better fidelity to reference photos, edits that change only what you ask, Sketch, templates for flyers... openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI
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.
eChai Partner Brands
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