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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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Video · ~30 min · Starting Up
How to Go From MVP to Scaling Startup with Bubble (Bubblecon 2024)
Bubble
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Video · 20 min · Starting Up
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding
Tom Blomfield
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Video · 30 min · Starting Up
Complete Vibe Coding Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App in 30 Minutes
Matt Palmer
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Video · 40 min · Starting Up
Building a Docusign clone with Lovable (live vibe coding)
YouTube
- 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
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.
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