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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.
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The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans
a16z
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Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped
a16z
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The New Way To Build A Startup
Y Combinator
- Lemkin actually ran the experiment of replacing bought tooling and people with AI, and reports the messy truth. open.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents | Jason Lemkin Lenny's Podcast
- Reported cases, including a 55-person firm saving ~$100k/yr by replacing Salesforce with a Claude-built app. tipranks.com Article · How Founders Use AI Small companies using Claude to quit Salesforce, The Information says TipRanks / The Information
- Concrete internal-ops use cases (approvals, onboarding, purchase orders) you can steal this week. forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI 5 Vibe Coding Use Cases Every Company Can Start Using Today Bernard Marr (Forbes)
- Legal, marketing, and finance teams building their own tools instead of filing tickets; proof it works beyond engineers. claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How Anthropic teams use Claude Code Anthropic
- Sober, named case studies of AI-built software inside real organisations, not demo-ware. itrevolution.com Article · How Founders Use AI Four Case Studies in Vibe Coding IT Revolution
- Why the build-vs-buy answer is 'more software everywhere', with the nuance most hot takes miss. a16z.com Article · How Founders Use AI Death of Software. Nah. a16z
- The investor-grade argument for why bespoke tools now compete with application SaaS on cost. a16z.news Article · How Founders Use AI Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software a16z
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If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Greg Isenberg
- A non-developer's honest build log of a production CRM that replaced Salesforce and HubSpot for his business. hackernoon.com Article · How Founders Use AI How I Built a 90-route CRM with Claude Code and No Dev Background Julian (HackerNoon)
- A personal AI CRM built in 20 minutes for $20/month, with the exact setup shared. growthunhinged.com Article · How Founders Use AI Everyone can have their own AI CRM Kyle Poyar (Growth Unhinged)
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Building a CRM From Scratch With Claude Code (Start to Finish)
Brendan Jowett
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Your CRM Sucks, Build One With Claude Code
Brendan Jowett
- Shows the step most tutorials skip: wiring your AI-built CRM to real accounting data. devblog.xero.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Build a CRM with Claude Code & Xero Regan Ashworth (Xero Developer)
- The canonical fast path to a CRUD admin panel on top of a real database. retool.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Supabase admin panel tutorial: build it in under 20 minutes Retool
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How to build an admin panel for Supabase in 10 minutes
Retool
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How to create a Supabase Admin Dashboard
UI Bakery
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Build an admin panel for Supabase in 5 minutes (Airtable + Whalesync)
Whalesync
- Point it at your schema and chat your way to a production-ready React admin, code included. refine.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Create an admin panel with Supabase in 5 minutes with Refine AI Refine
- 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
- 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
- Why the biggest internal-tools platform rebuilt itself around conversational app building. airtable.com Article · How Founders Use AI The AI-Native Airtable Has Arrived: A Letter from our CEO Howie Liu (Airtable)
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
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