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gm friends, hope the sunday scaries aren't beating you this morning. In today's Roundup, we've got five products you ought to know about, a move to turn Alcatraz into the new YC offices, a feel good founder story, and some Twitter hacks to get those numbers pumping.
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Leaderboard highlights
Talk about being in founder mode
You mightâve seen the headline about Trump wanting to reopen Alcatraz. Isaiah Granet took that and ran with this cursed rebrand: Y Combinator, now headquartered on the island. Miss your MVP deadline? Say goodbye to sunlight. Raise a down round? Straight to solitary.
From 0 to $8K revenue
Denis Iurchak didnât set out to build a business. He just got irritated.
Microsoft decided to kill of Skype, along with it, it's cheap international dialling feature. Denis spotted the gap and decided to fill it with a weekend build and zero ceremony.
Enter Yadaphone. Itâs a barebones web app for cheap international calls. Buy credits, dial numbers, talk. No logins, no app store, no AI pretending to help. Just a big dialer, a credit box, and a browser tab.
He posted it to r/Skype. The thread got deleted in under an hour, but not before a few people grabbed the link. One of them became a fan and started spreading the word. That one user turned into a feedback machine. Denis kept up, fixing every weird dialing edge case, squashing bugs as they came in, and quietly watching Yadaphone grow.
He launched it on Product Hunt mid-chaos, forgot it was happening, and still walked away with a featured badge. Someone emailed asking for an enterprise plan. He built it overnight and closed the deal the next morning.
Ads flopped. Reddit and Twitter carried the whole thing. Pieter Levels retweeted the story and the traffic exploded.
Two months in, Yadaphone makes $8,000. Denis quits his job. Support requests still go straight to his inbox. He answers them every morning and ships whateverâs broken.
Tweet for your life
RodrigoâŻSoviero tossed a classic founder worry into the forum: âAs a founder, how do I get started on X?â
Replies split into three camps.
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Just post: lurk a bit, then hit send. Your first tweets disappear into the void anyway.
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Show the build: followers care about the messy middleâshipping notes, tiny wins, and faceâplantsâmore than polished releases.
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Pick a lane: stick to one themeâproduct lessons, indie revenue, spicy market takesâso strangers know why theyâre following.
X veterans also begged new founders to skip growthâhack tricks and reply to people like humans. The consensus: consistency beats clever hacks, and screenshots of real numbers still crush AIâgenerated quotes.
Every Sunday
Everything you missed this past week on Product Hunt: Top products, spicy community discourse, key trends on the site, and long-form pieces weâve recently published.