He Built 15 Failed Products, And Now Makes $17K/Month | Denis Yurchak

Denis Yurchak studied international relations, taught himself to code at 22, failed at 15 products, cloned a competitor's idea, and built Yadaphone, a Skype replacement that now makes $17,500 a month. All as a solo founder with no team and no funding.

In this episode, Denis breaks down:
→ How he went from a humanities degree to shipping products as a solo dev
→ Why his first 15 ideas failed (including a social network for artists)
→ The exact moment he realized cloning proven ideas beats building something new
→ How a single tweet got 300,000 impressions and launched his second product (with only 5,000 followers)
→ His Reddit playbook: 10 out of 20 posts hit 100K+ impressions with zero following
→ Why monthly subscriptions kill indie products (and what to do instead)
→ How AI changed his workflow: he now codes in English, not code
→ The writing trick that makes copy click: if you can't read a sentence in one breath, it's too long
→ Why the "engineering identity crisis" is actually great news for non-technical founders
→ How working with his wife became his unfair advantage
→ Gabriel's take on hiring A-players: why excitement beats 15 years of experience
→ Revenue share models that keep great developers motivated
→ Why "competition is high but also very low", and what that means for you

Whether you're a developer thinking about building your own thing, a non-technical founder wondering if you still need an engineer, or just curious about the indie hacker lifestyle, this one's full of real talk and zero fluff.