quietmoneyYadaphone
Yadaphone is a browser softphone: users don't install an app or verify a phone number, they top up a balance and call mobiles and landlines abroad by the minute. It sells on being cheaper than carriers and Skype.
Denis Yurchak, One-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Revenue over time
Real payments synced by TrustMRR, in USD, by calendar month, renewals included.
- MRR
- $1,049
- Revenue, last 30 days
- $12,497
- All-time revenue
- $266,113
- Active subscriptions
- 400
- Payments via
- Stripe
- Source
- TrustMRR, synced from the founder's payment account
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Yadaphone is a browser softphone: users don't install an app or verify a phone number, they top up a balance and call mobiles and landlines abroad by the minute. It sells on being cheaper than carriers and Skype.
- Users
- Ordinary people and freelancers who need to call family, clients, or local businesses abroad and don't want international roaming or a phone plan, mainly in Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-speaking regions
- Positioning
- A cheap Skype alternative: no software to install, no subscription, pay by usage; the HN post title says it is about 20x cheaper than most carriers
- Pricing
- Usage-based billing (prepaid call credit); the specific rates were not found; TrustMRR says no subscription and competitive per-minute rates Billing: credits Source: TrustMRR
“Page body empty to fetcher (likely JS-rendered); nothing visible beyond title.”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). Similarweb last month: the top channel is direct at 64.35%, followed by organic search at about 26.7%, social at about 5.3% (Reddit, X, YouTube), and paid at 0.35%. Apart from the brand keyword 'yadaphone', the search terms are all country codes and calling needs, such as 'prefisso', '212 country code', 'paginas para llamar con link', and 'free calling online', 668 keywords in all, which suggests it feeds on multilingual search through long-tail pages by area code and country. In 2025-03 the founder posted three times on Hacker News, each getting only 1 to 2 points; before 2025-11 there was a Starter Story video, 'I rebuilt a $1B app and now make $14K/month', that an HN commenter took to be this founder's video. Existing users come back through prepaid balances and direct visits.
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 21% |
| 5% | |
| Other | 73% |
Direct + brand search 70%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10.93% |
| Spain | 10.87% |
| Uruguay | 8.25% |
| United States | 8.08% |
| Portugal | 5.03% |
Language
English (the homepage scrape only read an English title; the search terms include Spanish and Italian, so there may be multilingual pages, not verified)
Social sources
Reddit, X, YouTube
Keywords
668 keywords · brand ~70% · organic 99.65% / paid 0.35%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| yadaphone |
| prefisso |
| paginas para llamar con link |
| free calling online |
| 212 country code |
Non-brand queries: prefisso, paginas para llamar con link, free calling online, 212 country code
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Web Hosting and Domain Names | 0.32% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 53.5K
- Visits MoM
- -20.41%
- Country rank
- Spain #95287
- Category rank
- Computers Electronics and Technology > Telecommunications (Spain) #400
- Bounce rate
- 38.64%
- Pages / visit
- 1.78
- Visit duration
- 00:00:11
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Organic Social (top channel 64.35%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Not found”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via SEO
FAQ
How much revenue does Yadaphone make per month?
About $13,084 last month (real payments synced by TrustMRR), #129 of 563 TrustMRR sites; the month before was $13,057.
Where do Yadaphone's new users come from?
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). New users mostly come from need-based searches Similarweb last month: the top channel is direct at 64.35%, followed by organic search at about 26.7%, social at about 5.3% (Reddit, X, YouTube), and paid at 0.35%. Apart from the brand keyword 'yadaphone', the search terms are all country codes and calling needs, such as 'prefisso', '212 country code', 'paginas para llamar con link', and 'free calling online', 668 keywords in all, which suggests it feeds on multilingual search through long-tail pages by area code and country. In 2025-03 the founder posted three times on Hacker News, each getting only 1 to 2 points; before 2025-11 there was a Starter Story video, 'I rebuilt a $1B app and now make $14K/month', that an HN commenter took to be this founder's video. Existing users come back through prepaid balances and direct visits.
How much does Yadaphone cost?
Usage-based billing (prepaid call credit); the specific rates were not found; TrustMRR says no subscription and competitive per-minute rates
Dossier confidence: low. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The numbers: revenue comes from TrustMRR: real payments synced automatically from the founder's Stripe or other payment account, summed by calendar month, renewals included, in USD. Site visits come from the Similarweb public page; where it shows none, they are estimated from global rank or the TrustMRR payment count, as noted on the page.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-31.