Echomindr — Founder Experience Retrieval
Real founder decisions. Not hallucinated advice.
No API key required. Free to use.
When to use this skill
Use when the conversation touches a business situation where a real founder example would be more useful than a generic answer:
- A tension, dilemma, or difficult decision in their business
- A go-to-market, product, hiring, fundraising, or positioning question
- Uncertainty about what to do next ("how do I...", "should I...")
- The user asks "what did other founders do when..."
- Any question about: pricing, launch timing, co-founder tension, fundraising, burnout, hiring, growth, PMF
Only a short, anonymized description of the business situation is sent to Echomindr. No personal data, names, or identifying information should be included in the query.
Primary endpoint — situation match
curl -X POST https://echomindr.com/situation \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"situation": "<describe the founder situation in plain language>", "limit": 3}'
Returns matched moments with: summary, verbatim quote, decision, outcome, lesson, source (podcast + guest + timestamp link).
Detail & similar experiences
# Full detail for a specific moment
curl https://echomindr.com/moments/{moment_id}
# Moments similar to a known moment
curl https://echomindr.com/similar/{moment_id}
Behavior instructions
- Reformulate the founder's situation structurally (not literally):
- "my team doesn't work without me" → "founder operational bottleneck, no middle management layer"
- "sales take too long" → "B2B deal stuck, champion without authority to decide"
- "how to convince users to try my product" → "early adoption friction, behavior change required, demo strategy"
- Call
POST /situation with that reformulated sentence - Present results: founder name, decision, outcome, lesson
- Always include the source link from
source.url_at_moment - If multiple results converge on a pattern, surface it
Example situations
- "My co-founder and I want different things."
- "I launched and nobody is signing up."
- "I'm burning out but I can't stop."
- "Should I raise VC or stay bootstrapped?"
- "My best engineer just quit."
- "We have traction but no revenue model."
Languages
Works in English, French, Swedish, and 20+ languages. BGE-M3 multilingual vector search.
External endpoints
| Endpoint | Purpose |
|---|
| ---------- | --------- |
| POST https://echomindr.com/situation | Semantic match of moments to a situation |
| GET https://echomindr.com/moments/{id} | Full detail for a specific moment |
| GET https://echomindr.com/similar/{id} | Moments similar to a known moment |
| GET https://echomindr.com/search?q= | Keyword search across moments |
Security & privacy
This skill sends queries to https://echomindr.com (Hetzner VPS, EU).
No personal data is collected. Queries are logged anonymously for monitoring.
No authentication required — the API is fully public.
About Echomindr
- 1,150+ founder moments · 52 canonical situations · 10 thematic families
- 100+ podcast episodes
- Sources: Lenny's Podcast, How I Built This, Y Combinator, 20 Minute VC, Acquired, My First Million, Masters of Scale, Silicon Carne, Startup Ministerio, Kevin Kamis, Wall Street Paper, Valy Sy (China vlogs), Matt & Ari (Canada), Oscar Lindhardt (Denmark), Aidan Walsh (USA)
Full API docs: https://echomindr.com/docs