BugRater
Early access: the directory is still filling out, and every rating here is a reported experience.

The journal

Notes from BugRater

How we grade programs, what the reviews are telling us, and the reasoning behind the calls we make. Written for the people who submit the reports.

3 posts
Latest Aug 11, 2026 6 min read
by Maliq Barnard

The job is to preserve signal

A review site's one asset is the signal inside its reviews. Between August 5 and 11, almost everything shipped (dated experiences, recoverable deletes, checks that hold but never reject) was about not destroying it, including the parts that were us fixing our own mistakes.

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Earlier

Aug 3, 2026

The whole map, not just the potholes

Complaint walls tell you where not to go. A real map tells you where to go. Here is where BugRater stands, and why balanced, standardized, researcher-run data beats a shame wall.

by Maliq Barnard

3 min read
Aug 3, 2026

Why we built BugRater

Researchers pick where to spend their time mostly blind. BugRater is a balanced, standardized place to rate bug bounty programs: the good and the bad.

by Maliq Barnard

1 min read