PhoneDeck

Vansh Parihar is 23 years old, based in Mumbai, and he built PhoneDeck in one week. Alone. That's it—one week to build a full Mac controller app that turns your iPhone into a StreamDeck replacement. And it's free. Forever. The $250 StreamDeck has 8 buttons. PhoneDeck gives you unlimited pages, drag-and-drop organization, live preview, and full control over your Mac's brightness, volume, media playback, and keyboard backlight—all from the phone already in your pocket. Bootstrapped, zero raised, one person. Sometimes the best founders aren't the ones with the biggest checks.

Here's the thing about PhoneDeck: it works completely wirelessly. Leave your iPhone charging beside your Mac, it auto-connects when you wake your Mac, and stays invisible until you need it. Swipe to your Design page, tap Figma, you're in. Swipe to Dev, tap VS Code, done. It's the StreamDeck workflow without the $250 hardware sitting on your desk. Requires iOS 17+ and a one-time Accessibility permission. That's it.

Most 23-year-olds are grinding for FAANG internships. Vansh Parihar built a product that's already better than a $250 industry standard in a week, in Mumbai, with zero funding. That's not a side project—that's a flex. Bootstrapped from Mumbai, shipping v1.1, and proving you don't need Silicon Valley money to build something people actually want.