How I Built a $15K/month Skype alternative

October 11th, 2025

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Denis Iurchak

Founder, Yadaphone

$3.4K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Yadaphone

yadaphone.com

from Vienna

started March 2024

$3,400

revenue/mo

Founders

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Who are you and what business did you start?

I have built a Skype alternative app for international calls solo. It's called Yadaphone, and it lets people make cheap international calls in browser. It makes $14k a month. In 7 months, we reached 10,000 registered users and 20 enterprise customers. Our main B2C customers are travelers, expats, freelancers, and B2B customers include background verification companies, travel agencies, and asset management companies.

I have launched Yadaphone days after Microsoft announced it was closing Skype, built the MVP in a weekend, and got my first sales minutes after my first Reddit post announcing it.

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How do you come up with the idea for Yadaphone?

I used to call via Skype before it closed down when I was traveling. I thought I was the only one like this, but when Microsoft announced it wanted to close Skype down, a lot of people were angry. I saw a tweet by Pieter Levels (@levelsio), saying how pissed...

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