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name: echomindr-founder-retrieval description: Retrieve real founder experiences, decisions, and outcomes from Echomindr — 1,150+ moments from top startup podcasts. Use whenever a founder describes any tension, decision, or uncertainty to ground advice in real cases. version: 1.3.0 author: thierry-faucher tags: [founders, startup, decisions, experiences, entrepreneurship, advice, podcasts, RAG] metadata: openclaw: emoji: "🎙️" homepage: https://echomindr.com requires: bins: - curl

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

1. 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"
2. Call POST /situation with that reformulated sentence
3. Present results: founder name, decision, outcome, lesson
4. Always include the source link from source.url_at_moment
5. 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