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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. Nadh is the CTO of Zerodha and maintainer of widely used open-source projects like listmonk, so he speaks from years of running... Kailash Nadh (nadh.in) Essay · ~10 min read · Starting Up "Open source" is not broken Kailash Nadh
  2. A maker community built around shipping in public where every post is a completed to-do, so it turns building in public into an... WIP (wip.co) Tool · ongoing · Starting Up WIP Marc Kohlbrugge
  3. When building is easier than ever and code is the least defensible thing you own, this breaks down what actually protects a... Y Combinator (Lightcone) Video · ~40 min · Starting Up The 7 Most Powerful Moats for AI Startups Y Combinator
  4. A clear primer on the types of moats so you can honestly assess how defensible your edge is, which is the final weigh-in your... CRV Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up What Is a Moat? The Startup Guide to Building Competitive Advantage CRV
  5. A useful counterweight that takes the copycat risk seriously in the AI era, when cloning a visible product is faster than ever.... The VC Corner Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Building in Public Is Not What It Used To Be The VC Corner
  6. A detailed teardown of how one company turned open source into a growth and trust engine rather than a giveaway to rivals. It... How They Grow Article · ~20 min read · Starting Up How PostHog Grows: The Power of Being Open-Core Jaryd Hermann
  7. A two time unicorn founder gives you a diagnostic tree for stalled growth, including why 'too expensive' or 'confusing' is... Lenny's Newsletter (Jason Cohen) Article · 18 min read · Starting Up 5 questions to ask when your product stops growing Jason Cohen
  8. Watching sessions tells you the story; a cohort retention curve tells you the numbers, and this guide walks through building... Amplitude Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Cohort Retention Analysis: Essential Metrics Guide Amplitude
  9. An Indian VC podcast where Tribe Capital's partners break down how they measure product market fit through cohorts, growth... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · 50 min · Starting Up Quantifying Product Market Fit Arjun Sethi and Jake Ellowitz
  10. Drawn from studying thousands of products, Chen argues you cannot bolt retention on later with notifications or tweaks; it... Andrew Chen Essay · 12 min read · Starting Up Why retention is so hard for new tech products Andrew Chen
  11. Karthik Sridharan bootstrapped Flexiple to over $1M ARR in India with almost all of its tech running on no-code tools like... Failory Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How Flexiple Reached $1M ARR in 4 Years and $2M in 4 Months Karthik Sridharan
  12. Tara Reed grew her company toward millions in revenue without writing code, and here she tells a non-technical founder exactly... Indie Hackers Podcast · ~60 min · Starting Up From $0 to $5M Without Writing Any Code with Tara Reed Tara Reed
  13. Video · ~30 min · Starting Up How to Go From MVP to Scaling Startup with Bubble (Bubblecon 2024) Bubble
  14. A tour of real companies (Comet, Qoins, Teal and others) that reached serious revenue or venture funding on no-code. Seeing... Nomtek Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up 11 Successful No-Code Startups and Companies Nomtek
  15. Free, well-produced lessons that take you from nothing to a real, responsive site and CMS-driven pages on Webflow, one of the... Webflow University Course · Self-paced · Starting Up Webflow University Webflow
  16. A candid look at where the Bubble web builder starts to strain and what those signals feel like from inside a growing product.... First Radicle Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up When to Evolve Beyond the Bubble Web Builder First Radicle
  17. Video · 20 min · Starting Up How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding Tom Blomfield
  18. A side by side of the three tools named in your question, covering the exact tradeoff you are weighing: AI generated code... Bubble Blog Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Lovable vs. Replit vs. Bubble: 2026 Review of the Best AI App Builders Bubble Blog
  19. A plain English primer for the non technical founder who wants the concept and the tool list without jargon. It explains how... No Code MBA Article · 12 min read · Starting Up What Is Vibe Coding? How Anyone Can Build Apps With AI No Code MBA
  20. When you hit the complexity your short answer warns about (real permissions, data models, backend logic), this is the... No Code MBA Course · Multi lesson track · Starting Up The Complete Guide to Bubble No Code MBA
  21. The official, primary source walkthrough for going from an idea to a deployed app inside one AI builder. Because it is the tool... Replit Docs Course · Self paced · Starting Up Vibe Coding 101 Replit Docs
  22. Video · 30 min · Starting Up Complete Vibe Coding Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App in 30 Minutes Matt Palmer
  23. Video · 40 min · Starting Up Building a Docusign clone with Lovable (live vibe coding) YouTube
  24. A clear map of where AI builders hit their ceiling: complex backends, edge cases, and code that gets hard to maintain as it... Builder.io Article · 12 min read · Starting Up Limitations of Vibe Coding Tools Builder.io

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