Varun Shukla

Varun Shukla

Building from 1st principle

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I build tools I actually use. Latest is bounty.index — because scrolling five bounty platforms every morning got old. Solo, bootstrapped, always shipping something.

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Maker History

  • Bounty Index
    Bounty Index Every public bounty program. One index.
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntAugust 5th, 2026

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Discord alerts shipped → bountyindex.in/settings/discord

Solving the biggest thing that was losing us users : if you watched a program on bounty.index, you never got told when it changed. You had to come back and check. That's a bad deal.

Fixed via Discord webhooks. Paste a webhook URL from your own server, pick which program should fire it, done. When the daily ingest detects a scope, reward, or safe-harbor change on that program, an embed lands in your channel within seconds. Up-arrow if it went up, down if it dropped, green for pure additions, amber if there's removals.

Setup is ~1 minute, no code. Server / channel settings Integrations Webhooks copy URL paste on our /settings/discord page. There's a test button on every row so you can smoke-test the wiring immediately, no waiting for a real diff.

Small stuff since the last update, batched

  1. Homepage got a comparison table so you can see at a glance where bounty.index sits vs the HackerOne / Bugcrowd directories, disclose.io, and raw bounty-targets-data. MCP access is a new column nobody else has it yet.

  2. Landing page split into proper sections (hero how-it-works pulse comparison features cta). The old monolithic page was fine at 200 lines and painful at 900.

  3. Ingest visualization on the homepage the platform names now actually connect to their curves flowing into the index. Was a small alignment bug, was bothering me every time i opened the site.

Nothing user-facing that changes workflow, but the site feels more finished. Live at bountyindex.in.

Shipped a small page today : /reward-changes.

It's the same daily snapshot diff /whats-new already uses, just filtered down to the rows where the max payout actually changed. Nothing else no scope adds, no policy edits, just who bumped their reward and who cut it. Up-arrow if it went up, down if it dropped.

30 days by default, 7d/30d/90d shortcuts, RSS at /reward-changes.xml.

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