People pick up bug bounty with zero engineering background, zero security knowledge, run nuclei on a wildcard scope for a weekend, and then post here asking why nobody is paying them. Because you don't know anything yet. That's why. The people getting consistent payouts have years of engineering experience. They read source. They understand how authentication systems, cloud platforms, and kernels actually work at an implementation level. They built that knowledge over years, not a weekend binge of YT tutorials and medium posts. This sub is full of people who skipped all of that and went straight to "where do I find bugs that pay $5000." You can't find what you can't recognize. You don't even know what a security boundary is, let alone how to cross one. Vulnerabilities, an overwhelming amount of the time, are mistakes in a standard way of doing something. How can you expect to find that when you don't even understand the standard way of doing it?…