How I made $64k from deleted files – a bug bounty story
Published in 2025, this chronicle by @giuliomagnifico details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $64k.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Post-ZIRP & AI (2023–2026)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 36 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 1 comments
To completely remove a file from history, one must rewrite history using tools like git filter-branch, git-filter-repo or by manually rebasing and running garbage collector (with prune) to clear unreachable objects — good luck with that.
I am fairly careful about what files that I add and I have stopped using GitHub. I push locally only. I should learn how to use git better, but I want to completely delete the repo and init just the latest snapshot to remove all of the history.