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What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. Per-minute rupee prices for phone voice agents in 11 Indian languages and English, by monthly volume. sarvam.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Voice Agents pricing Sarvam AI
  2. The downloadable Sarvam-105B model under Apache 2.0, for teams that want to host it themselves. huggingface.co Tool · How Founders Use AI sarvamai/sarvam-105b Sarvam AI (Hugging Face)
  3. Where an organisation registers once to use Bhashini's translation and speech APIs, models and datasets. bhashini.gov.in Tool · How Founders Use AI BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division
  4. An AI agent that builds and deploys full-stack apps with hosting, database, and auth built in, bridging no-code speed and real,... replit.com Tool · platform · Starting Up Replit, Build Apps with AI Replit
  5. A free, well-maintained learning hub from the industry-standard design tool, covering the fundamentals a founder needs to... figma.com Course · self-paced · Starting Up Figma, Learn Design Figma
  6. When two ideas are stuck in a loop of gut feel versus gut feel, the fastest way out is to agree on what actually matters and... Savio Template · ~15 min read + free Google Sheet · Starting Up The Weighted Scoring Model: Guide, Template, and Calculator Kareem Mayan
  7. The answer only works if you actually keep the running idea log, and this is a simple, free place to keep it. Obsidian stores... Obsidian Tool · Starting Up Obsidian Obsidian
  8. When you are selling to businesses outside the big startup hubs, national headline numbers are too coarse to plan against. This... Ministry of MSME, Government of India Tool · Starting Up State-wise Udyam (MSME) Registration Dashboard Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
  9. You do not need to be in anyone's network to see interest rising, you need the search data everyone already generates. Google... Google Tool · Starting Up Google Trends (Explore) Google
  10. For a founder in India collecting money in INR, Razorpay is the default payments stack, and this is the official developer... Razorpay Tool · Reference docs, dip in as needed · Starting Up Razorpay Developer Documentation Razorpay
  11. The essay tells you to find your riskiest assumption, this template shows you how to actually surface it. It is a free,... Figma FigJam Template · Ready-to-use board · Starting Up Assumption Mapping Template (free, FigJam) Figma
  12. This is the concrete insurance step against the shutdown scenario you are worried about. On2Air runs scheduled backups of your... On2Air Tool · Setup in under 30 minutes · Starting Up On2Air Backups: Automated Airtable Backups On2Air
  13. Billing and auth are exactly where no-code SaaS breaks first, so we picked the primary source over any third-party template:... Bubble Manual Tool · Single guide, roughly a 20 to 30 minute read · Starting Up Subscriptions (Bubble official documentation) Bubble
  14. When your UI tool's built-in rules are not enough, or you have outgrown them, Xano is a no-code backend that gives you real... xano.com Tool · About a 12 minute read · Starting Up Securing your Xano APIs Xano
  15. This is the closest thing to a done-for-you starting point for exactly your situation: a marketplace or directory front end... Softr Tool · Starting Up Softr Airtable Freelance Marketplace Template Softr
  16. Cursor is the AI code editor most founders reach for when a no-code tool hits its ceiling and you need real, custom code. You... cursor.com Tool · Starting Up Cursor Anysphere
  17. Before you automate anything, you need one place the data actually lives, and this is where you grab a ready-made base to be... airtable.com Template · Copy-and-use base · Starting Up Airtable Templates (official gallery) Airtable
  18. A rough wireframe answers a question words rarely settle: what the screen and the flow actually look like. Figma's free tier... Figma Tool · Starting Up Figma Wireframe Tool (free online wireframing) Figma
  19. Most contract templates online are US-shaped, and this one is genuinely built for the Indian context: it covers IP assignment... Contract Shield Template · Downloadable Word template · Starting Up Software Development Agreement Template (India) Contract Shield
  20. A contract clause is your legal safeguard, but the practical one is making sure the repo lives under an account you control... GitHub Docs Tool · ~10 min read · Starting Up About organizations GitHub
  21. Most agency cost calculators are just email-capture forms that make you wait for a salesperson, but this one actually computes... Smol Launch Tool · Starting Up Free MVP & App Development Cost Calculator Smol Launch
  22. A shared board is the concrete accountability mechanism: every task has an owner, a status, and a due window that everyone can... Linear Tool · Free up to 250 issues, paid from 10 dollars per user per month · Starting Up Linear Linear
  23. You cannot fully remove the risk of one person holding all the knowledge, but you can hedge it, and the cheapest hedge is... GitHub Tool · One template file plus a short guide · Starting Up readme-best-practices: a starter template for project READMEs jehna
  24. If you have no warm intros, you need a pond stocked with people who actually want startup work, and Wellfound (formerly... Wellfound Tool · Ongoing platform · Starting Up Hire Startup Talent on Wellfound Wellfound

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