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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.
- Replit's own explanation of Free Mode, where everyday tasks stop using credits on the $20 Core plan. blog.replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI Replit Introduces Free Mode to Expand What is Possible with AI Replit
- Cursor's current plans after the SpaceX deal: what the $8 and $30 plans include and that other makers' models are billed... cursor.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Cursor pricing Cursor
- Lovable's own funding post at a $13.3 billion valuation, and its plan to move from building apps to running businesses on them. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI We just raised $400M in Series C funding to help people run their businesses Lovable
- Google's guide to building a native Android app from a prompt, previewing it in the browser and publishing it to the Play Store... ai.google.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Build Android apps in Google AI Studio Google
- Shows how a draft gives you a separate copy with its own chat and preview, so nothing reaches your live app until you accept it. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing drafts: an easier way to collaborate and explore new ideas Lovable
- Anthropic's data that Claude use has moved from conversations to long-running agentic tasks, and what people produce with them. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences Anthropic
- The current MCP spec release from its maintainers: a stateless core and stronger authorisation, for whoever on your team runs... blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Article · How Founders Use AI The 2026-07-28 Specification MCP project
- Shows how to hand Claude a whole report or deck from a conversation and let it keep working after you close the laptop. claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude Anthropic
- Where ChatGPT's browsing agent lives now: Chat, Work and Codex in one desktop app, with Work handling research and finished files. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Moving to the new ChatGPT desktop app OpenAI Help Center
- What happened to Atlas and where its browsing moved, for anyone who set up their research around it. pcmag.com Article · How Founders Use AI OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch PCMag
- Short report on Seedance 2.5: 30-second clips in one run from up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips. technode.com Article · How Founders Use AI ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model TechNode
- What Suno v6 is, the licensed Warner and BMG recordings behind it, and what each plan allows. musicradar.com Article · How Founders Use AI Suno has rebuilt its AI music models from scratch with licensed music MusicRadar
- The suit against Suno v6, which matters before you put an AI track in a paid ad. musicradar.com Article · How Founders Use AI “Suno’s v6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree”: Universal and Sony sue AI firm over continued copyright infringement in its new model MusicRadar
- OpenAI's launch post: better fidelity to reference photos, edits that change only what you ask, Sketch, templates for flyers... openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI
- Midjourney's note on V8.2, its current default, and the Personalization changes that tune it to your taste. midjourney.com Article · How Founders Use AI Version 8.2 Midjourney
- Jio Unlimited 5G customers are offered Google AI Pro free for 18 months, which includes higher Veo and Nano Banana limits. engadget.com Article · How Founders Use AI Google brings free Gemini access to India's largest carrier Engadget
- Midjourney's guide to the Edit model: edit by instruction, generate from up to 4 references, and combine with style references... docs.midjourney.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Edit Model (Midjourney docs) Midjourney
- Sarvam's dubbing for 12 Indian languages, each speaker's voice cloned, from Rs 40 a minute, in Content Studio or by API. sarvam.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI AI Dubbing API for Indian Languages Sarvam AI
- Current plans side by side: Free, Go ($8, may include ads), Plus ($20) and Pro, with what each includes. openai.com Tool · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT pricing OpenAI
- Figma's Config post on building to think versus building to ship, with code-backed prototypes on the shared canvas. figma.com Article · How Founders Use AI Build by design: new workflows for new ways of building Figma
- How Figma's code layers put a working, code-backed prototype on the canvas where the team can comment on it, open beta on all... figma.com Article · How Founders Use AI Design together with code layers on the canvas Figma
- Framer's agents edit pages, copy, SEO and publishing inside a live site, so landing page iterations happen by prompt. framer.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Framer Agents: AI agents for designing, updating, and improving sites Framer
- Figma's new home for the Markdown rules and decisions that agents read before they generate, kept with the project. figma.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium Figma
- How the Figma agent applies a design system's rules to new work, which is what keeps output from drifting to the default. figma.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to lighten design system upkeep with the Figma agent Figma
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
The partnership →