What Happened to HackerOne?

A veteran bug bounty hunter and program manager reflects on HackerOne's decline from its golden era of community and live hacking events to a sales-driven, VC-funded business. They detail how the platform stagnated, triage quality dropped, and the introduction of the Hacker Success Program created an uneven playing field. The piece also criticizes HackerOne's AI assistant, Hai, as a missed opportunity to address long-standing feature requests.