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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.

  1. The practical version, with templates: audit your historical deals, split standard from custom, and build an approval matrix by... RevOps.io Template · 15 min read · GTM A Framework for Building Your Deal Desk (+ 2 Free Templates) Asia Corbett
  2. What a rescue service looks like when you do hit the wall. vibecoderescue.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Vibe Code Rescue Vibe Code Rescue
  3. An open-source scaffold that forces spec, plan, tasks, then code. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI GitHub Spec Kit GitHub
  4. One dashboard that scans AI-generated code, secrets, and dependencies. aikido.dev Tool · How Founders Use AI Aikido Security Aikido
  5. Database, auth, and storage in one free-tier service. supabase.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Supabase: the Postgres development platform Supabase
  6. The source of truth for plans and daily credits. lovable.dev Tool · How Founders Use AI Lovable pricing Lovable
  7. Describe, preview on your phone, publish: the product page. replit.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Replit Mobile Apps Replit
  8. Build a mobile app from your phone; 40,000+ apps created. vibecodeapp.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Vibecode: AI mobile and web app builder Vibecode (Riley Brown)
  9. Try the build-an-app-inside-an-app experience yourself. apps.apple.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Vibecode on the App Store Vibecode
  10. See how these builders work under the hood, free and open. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI vibra-code: open-source AI app builder for mobile sa4hnd (GitHub)
  11. The no-code route to an admin surface with user permissions over live Postgres data. softr.io Tool · How Founders Use AI Build a custom Supabase admin dashboard in minutes Softr
  12. Describe the tracker you need and Omni generates tables, interfaces, and automations in one shot. airtable.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Airtable Omni: Your expert AI app builder Airtable
  13. Open-source middle ground: looks like a spreadsheet, behaves like a database, AI formula assistant built in. getgrist.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Grist: spreadsheet software to end data chaos Grist Labs
  14. Prompt-to-app with the database auto-structured, including an MIT case that replaced a $100k custom app. softr.io Tool · How Founders Use AI Softr AI Co-Builder: build real business software with AI Softr
  15. The heavyweight option when your internal tool needs real data governance and agents. retool.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Retool AI: automate and speed up business processes Retool
  16. Lovable's internal-tools recipes: concrete starting prompts for trackers and workflows. lovable.dev Tool · How Founders Use AI Lovable for internal project management tools Lovable
  17. The official page on how Lovable, Bolt, and friends wire into Supabase underneath. supabase.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Supabase for AI Builders Supabase
  18. Open-source and self-hostable, the escape hatch if vendor pricing ever bites. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI grist-core: the evolution of spreadsheets Grist Labs
  19. A purpose-built tool for the day you outgrow Airtable and want your data in Postgres. atmigrator.com Tool · How Founders Use AI AT Migrator: Airtable to PostgreSQL migration tool AT Migrator
  20. Built for exactly this user: the CEO or support lead who needs answers without a BI seat. askyourdatabase.com Tool · How Founders Use AI AskYourDatabase: AI data analyst and SQL chatbot AskYourDatabase
  21. Configurable read/write access so your AI can query the database without being able to wreck it. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI postgres-mcp: Postgres MCP Pro Crystal DBA
  22. Self-serve BI with Metabot AI: teammates ask questions, it writes and explains the SQL. metabase.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Metabase: open source analytics that answers back Metabase
  23. Connects Postgres plus HubSpot, Sheets, and Shopify, matching a founder's actual scattered stack. talktoyourdata.app Tool · How Founders Use AI Talk To Your Data: chat with your database and SaaS tools Talk To Your Data
  24. The self-hostable automation layer that owns the founder-automation conversation right now. n8n.io Tool · How Founders Use AI n8n AI: advanced AI workflow automation n8n

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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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