Echomindr Founder Retrieval

Retrieve real founder experiences, decisions, and outcomes from Echomindr — 1,150+ moments from top startup podcasts. Use whenever a founder describes any te...

Security Scan

This instruction-only skill is internally consistent with its stated purpose: it simply reformulates a founder situation and queries echomindr.com with curl to retrieve matching podcast-derived moments, and it does not request credentials or install code.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description promise (retrieve founder moments from Echomindr) matches the runtime instructions and required binary: the SKILL.md shows exactly the public echomindr.com endpoints to call via curl and requires no extra credentials or unrelated tools.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are narrowly scoped: reformulate the user's situation, POST it to /situation, and fetch moment details. The doc explicitly instructs not to include personal or identifying information in queries. The only external communication is to echomindr.com (the documented endpoints). Note: API results may include podcast guest names and verbatim quotes (these are source data, not user PII).

Install Mechanism

No install spec or code files are present (instruction-only skill). Nothing is downloaded or written to disk by the skill itself, which is the lowest-risk installation model.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or config paths; that is proportionate for a public, unauthenticated API. There are no requests for unrelated secrets or system access.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and user-invocable:true (normal defaults). The skill does not ask for permanent presence or special privileges and does not modify other skills or system-wide settings.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and low-risk: it will make outbound HTTPS requests to echomindr.com using curl and does not require credentials or install code locally. Before using it, avoid including any user-identifying or sensitive information in prompts (the SKILL.md instructs anonymization and the service logs queries). If you operate in a privacy-sensitive or regulated environment, verify the third party's logging/anonymization policy and that sending anonymized summaries to an external service is acceptable. If you need offline or self-hosted data access, this public API-based skill is not suitable. Otherwise it is reasonable to enable and use.

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