Why this exists
The hour that
The hour that
cost $5,000
I found the bug. I wrote it up clean. I hit submit and waited.
Behind that one report: hours of research, a proof of concept I got working, and the nights I didn't sleep getting there.
It was gone before I sent it. Someone else had filed the same finding hours earlier.
The program had opened that morning. I found it hours later. Nothing tells you when a program goes live.
The reply came back as one word. Valid. Duplicate.
Duplicate is the polite word for: every one of those hours was worth nothing.
Same bug. Same severity. Same fix. Five thousand dollars to whoever loaded the page first.
I didn't lose to a better hacker. I lost to an hour.
So I stopped refreshing. I built Mycelium so that hour never costs me again.