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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. The concise, always-current version of the Bible. docs.lovable.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Prompting best practices (Lovable docs) Lovable In 2 answers
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Written for founders making a business decision, not developers comparing specs. altar.io Article · How Founders Use AI Lovable vs Bolt vs v0 vs Replit Agent vs Base44: A Founder's Comparison Altar.io In 2 answers
  18. A designer-operator's decision tree for which tool fits which internal job. annaarteeva.medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Choosing your AI prototyping stack: Lovable, v0, Bolt, Replit, Cursor compared Anna Arteeva In 2 answers
  19. Covers the v0 angle most comparisons skip: generating UI for a stack you already have. uibakery.io Article · How Founders Use AI v0 vs Bolt vs Replit: AI Builders Compared UI Bakery In 2 answers
  20. Benchmarks the same prompt across builders with timing and code-quality notes. digitalapplied.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI App Builders: v0 vs Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit Digital Applied In 2 answers
  21. A database-tooling company's sober shortlist of what actually generates runnable SQL. bytebase.com Article · How Founders Use AI Top 5 Text-to-SQL Query Tools Bytebase In 2 answers
  22. Explains how schema introspection lets Claude reason about your data model, not just guess. pgedge.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing the pgEdge Postgres MCP Server pgEdge In 2 answers
  23. A PM's exact prompts for turning raw data into a dashboard stakeholders actually open. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI How To Build Interactive Dashboards With Claude Like An AI Product Manager Ian Khor In 2 answers
  24. Connecting real data feeds to Claude-built dashboards, with worked examples. blog.coupler.io Guide · How Founders Use AI Claude.ai Artifacts for Live Analytics Dashboards Coupler.io In 2 answers

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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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