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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.
- This is a structured, fillable brief you can hand straight to a designer or paste into an AI tool, built around the six things... Holabrief Template · Starting Up Naming Brief Template (Holabrief) Holabrief
- This is the free, built-in way to see exactly where your landing page breaks: open DevTools, toggle the device toolbar, and... Chrome for Developers Tool · Starting Up Simulate mobile devices with Device Mode (Chrome DevTools) Google Chrome Developers
- Paste your landing page URL and it shows you exactly how the link renders when someone drops it into WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn,... OpenGraph.to Tool · Starting Up OpenGraph.to: Free Open Graph Checker and Preview Tool OpenGraph.to
- If your landing page is on WordPress, Weglot is the most common way to add a language toggle without touching engineering. This... Weglot Tool · ~10 min read · Starting Up How to add a WordPress language switcher (no code) Weglot
- This is the official government register, so if you are building in India this is where you confirm a name is not already... IP India Tool · varies · Starting Up IP India Trademark Public Search Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM)
- This is a genuinely one-page template you can fill in the same afternoon, in Word, PowerPoint, Google Slides, or PDF, so no... Smartsheet Template · One page, fill in the same day · Starting Up One-Page Brand Guidelines Template (Free) Smartsheet
- The email signature is the brand touchpoint a B2B founder hits dozens of times a day and almost always neglects, which is odd... HubSpot Template · ~5 min to set up · Starting Up Free Email Signature Generator HubSpot
- A missing or stretched favicon is one of the smallest details that quietly makes a new startup look unfinished, and this tool... RealFaviconGenerator Tool · Starting Up RealFaviconGenerator RealFaviconGenerator
- The safest place to pick fonts you can actually ship: everything is free, open source, and licensed for commercial use (logos,... Google Fonts Tool · Starting Up Google Fonts Google
- A pretty palette that no one can read reads as careless, and this is the fastest way to catch that before it ships. Paste a... WebAIM Tool · Starting Up WebAIM Contrast Checker WebAIM
- The messiest part of staying on-brand across a website, app, LinkedIn, and event booths is that the person making a WhatsApp... Canva Tool · Product page plus setup docs, ~30 min to set up your first kit · Starting Up Canva Brand Kit (Canva Pro) Canva
- Day-to-day posts are where a brand quietly falls apart, because each one gets rebuilt from scratch in a slightly different... Canva Template · Template library, pick and reuse in minutes · Starting Up Free and customizable social media (social graphic) templates Canva
- The article walks a four step method and then hands you an editable Google Doc you can fill in, which is what you actually need... Semrush Template · Starting Up How to Define Your Brand's Tone of Voice (with free template) Eugenia Verbina
- This is a free, browsable library of real SaaS landing pages (ConvertKit, Loom, Gumroad, and more) with the actual hero copy... swipefile.com Tool · Browsable gallery, dozens of real pages · Starting Up SaaS Landing Page Examples (Swipefile) swipefile.com
- Before you worry about whether your copy is persuasive, this catches whether it will even reach the inbox. It is genuinely free... Mailmeteor Tool · ~2 min per check · Starting Up Free Email Spam Checker Mailmeteor
- When you are the only writer, the fix is not more discipline, it is one short document you actually reuse. This free fill-in... Big Bang Copy Template · Fill-in Google Slides template, roughly 30 to 45 minutes to draft a first pass · Starting Up Brand Tone of Voice Template (free, fill-in) Big Bang Copy
- When you are staring at a blank button or a lonely empty state, the fastest unblock is seeing how good products actually... goodmicrocopy.com Tool · Browsable gallery, dozens of entries · Starting Up Good Microcopy Sam Hulick
- When you don't have the traffic to A/B test, a five-second test is the practical substitute: show your copy to a handful of... Maze Tool · Starting Up Five-Second Test Template Maze
- You cannot fix indexing mistakes you cannot see, and this free tool from Google shows you exactly which of your pages are... Google Search Console Help Tool · Starting Up Page Indexing report (Google Search Console) Google
- AlsoAsked pulls Google's live People Also Ask questions and maps them into a branching diagram, so you see the actual questions... AlsoAsked Tool · free tier with limited daily searches, paid plans for volume · Starting Up AlsoAsked: People Also Ask keyword research tool Mark Williams-Cook
- Before you spend weeks writing in Hindi, spend ten minutes checking whether your actual buyers search that way. Google Trends... Google Trends Tool · Free web tool, a few minutes per check · Starting Up Google Trends (Explore and Compare) Google
- When nobody has heard of you, a real quote in a journalist's story is one of the few ways to earn a genuine press link from a... HARO (helpareporter.com) Tool · Ongoing (daily email queries you respond to) · Starting Up Help a Reporter Out (HARO) Featured.com
- This is Google's own explanation of the three numbers that actually tell you if your content is getting found: impressions,... Google Search Console Help Tool · Starting Up Impressions, clicks, and position in Google Search Console (official docs) Google Search Central
- Once you have decided that signups and leads are what count, GA4 is the free tool that connects a content visit to that action.... Google Analytics Help Tool · Starting Up About key events (conversions) in Google Analytics 4 (official docs) Google Analytics team
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
The partnership →