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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.

  1. What the National Language Translation Mission offers: voice-first translation services, apps and data for Indian languages. bhashini.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI About BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division
  2. Podcast · How Founders Use AI Inside India's Sovereign AI Ambition | ft. Pratyush Kumar and Vivek Raghavan of Sarvam AI Lightspeed India and Southeast Asia
  3. Video · How Founders Use AI IIT Bombay Unveils Made-In-India BharatGen: AI For 22 Languages, Healthcare & More Mint
  4. The government's note on Sarvam's selection under the IndiaAI Mission and what its models cover. static.pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Sarvam AI: Powering a Made-in-India AI Revolution Press Information Bureau, Government of India
  5. Every Sarvam rate in rupees: speech to text, voices, translation, dubbing, document reading and its 105B model. sarvam.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Sarvam API Pricing Sarvam AI
  6. 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
  7. 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)
  8. 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
  9. ElevenLabs' model list with the languages each covers, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and eight more Indian languages. elevenlabs.io Guide · How Founders Use AI Models ElevenLabs
  10. Video · How Founders Use AI Part1: Deepgram vs Sarvam AI for Indian Speech To Text(STT): Accuracy + Cost, with examples KW TechWorld
  11. Video · How Founders Use AI Introducing Saaras V4 Sarvam AI
  12. Video · How Founders Use AI How to build Voice Agent using Sarvam (Hindi Demo) Machine with Mayank Jain
  13. The OECD's record of the Voice of India findings as a risk to welfare and health services. oecd.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Global AI Speech Recognition Models Fail Indian Languages, Impacting Critical Services OECD AI Incidents Monitor
  14. A real case of auto-translation reversing the meaning of a Kannada message, and the complaint that followed. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah Calls Out Meta For 'Faulty' Kannada Translation Inc42
  15. Sajith Pai's India1/India2/India3 framework and the Indus Valley report are the sharpest public analysis of who in India... sajithpai.com Article · essays + annual report · Starting Up Sajith Pai on the Indus Valley Report & the Indian market (India1/2/3) Sajith Pai (Blume Ventures)
  16. 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
  17. A real Indian maker story: Bengaluru's Karthik Sridharan scaled Flexiple to seven figures on no-code. Proof that a... Makerpad (Zapier) Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up How a Former Salesman Co-Founded a Seven-Figure Business on Bubble Karthik Sridharan (Flexiple) via Makerpad
  18. Video · ~10 min · Starting Up How to Find a Technical Cofounder Michael Seibel (YC)
  19. 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
  20. India's largest volunteer-driven product community (Bengaluru-founded, 25k+ members) with a practitioner blog on strategy,... theproductfolks.com Article · ~10 min read + community · Starting Up The Product Folks, India's Product Community The Product Folks
  21. Shows exactly how top startups turned early cold/warm outreach into paying customers, with real message-level detail. Grounds... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to win your first 10 customers via direct outreach Lenny Rachitsky
  22. Video · Starting Up Complete Bubble.io Course for Beginners: Build an App in 2025 YouTube
  23. A long conversation with the founder of TSMC, one of the most consequential companies most people have never studied. It is a... Acquired Podcast · ~1 hr 30 min · Starting Up TSMC Founder Morris Chang (Acquired) Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
  24. When you are entering an industry you have never worked in, the real risk is being fooled by a surface understanding and... Scott H. Young Book · ~304 pages · Starting Up Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Scott H. Young

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1046 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 352 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 482 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 154 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 278 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 390 terms
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