Hackyard

Nobody checked if people wanted it. The Fall, 7 min: youtu.be/cnWsJlDK33o

$1.75 billion raised. Hollywood's biggest names. Founders who built DreamWorks and eBay. Dead in 6 months.

How 55 people ran an app used by 450 million: no ads, no marketing, no downtime. How It Was Built, 8 min: youtu.be/ZvAy5mSSb6E

Facebook rejected him for a job. 5 years later it paid $19B for his company. 55 employees. 450M users. $0 on marketing.

The full story: the $6,500 cube that flopped, the side bet that became Pixar, and the 90 days that saved Apple. Founder Files, 8 min: youtu.be/QEiXUMz7bR8

Apple fired Steve Jobs at 30. 11 years later it paid $427M to get him back. The reason is still in your pocket.

A co-founder's CV won't tell you if they ship. Five signals that will: a link not a pitch, finished over impressive, cut scope not the date, users before stack, build before you commit. hackyard.org

The hard part was never the idea. It was finding the people. Steve Jobs had the vision. Wozniak could build it. Together, Apple. Hackyard is the place where builders find each other. Show your work, say what you need, offer what you can. Don’t build alone. Find your people. Build something real. hackyard.org

BUILD 2026 just got a power-up. we're welcoming BenQ as our Co-Powering Partner for Build 2026. 24-25 Oct, IIT Guwahati. 2 days. one room. builders shipping real products on screens built for it. link in bio to register. #Build2026 #Hackyard #BenQ #IITGuwahati

Founder session announcement: Tejas Gupta, co-founder of Clean (Y Combinator F26), joins Hackyard Build 2026 live from San Francisco. He scaled a company to $40M and was the youngest intern at GlobalLogic (Hitachi), at 19. YC Startup School rejected him twice - at 21, he got into Y Combinator. He'll share how he built his network from zero and turned a hackathon team into a YC company. IIT Guwahati · 24-25 Oct 2026. Bring your questions.