Side Hustles To Earn Extra Cash: Business Ideas & How-To

Episode 046: Find Bugs on Websites and Get Paid a “Bug Bounty”


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A digital frontier ripe with opportunities awaits you - one where keen observers with a knack for problem-solving and a firm grasp on technical skills can carve out a rewarding niche for themselves. This is the world of bug bounties, a place where curiosity and perseverance are handsomely rewarded.

Think of yourself as an explorer. The digital landscape is vast, filled with websites, apps, and programs. Each one is a unique structure made up of lines of code, much like a city composed of buildings and streets. As an explorer, your task is to search these structures for flaws or "bugs," as they're called in the world of technology. These bugs could be anything from a misbehaving button on a website to a serious security flaw in an application that could potentially expose sensitive data.

Now, here comes the exciting part. In this frontier, bugs aren't just nuisances. They are your bread and butter. They are valued treasures. Companies, especially those that run on digital platforms, place high value on these bugs, not for their existence, but for their detection. They are willing to pay a bounty, sometimes a significant amount, to those who find and report these bugs. This practice is what forms the basis of the bug bounty industry.

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