Journey to $10,000 from bug bounty hunting: Update #1
So as always, I was monitoring my mailbox.
An email came through: "Changed from P2 to P1"
A few minutes later...
Another email: Triaged.
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I went to Claude and created an exclusive, comprehensive, XSS-only bug bounty curriculum (it still covers advanced surfaces like PDF, file upload, markdown, rich text editors, etc.)
So going forward I will focus on hunting only XSS, and see what happens.
👇🏾
Anti bot mitigations block:
Web fetch
Curl
Wget
Puppeteer
Playwright
Chrome devtools mcp
You don’t notice because it’s in a sub agent and your hackbot gives up silently.
Roll your own requester.
Red Router Abliterated Benchmarks are live!
This is the first and only continous measurement of Speed, latency, reliability, and listed price across providers. 🧵(1/3) https://t.co/vLNOX5CemB
I will also opencode and free-pi, both provide free, limited access to Deepseek v4.1 Flash (used mostly for a first-pass of finding confirmation).
I hope that you will follow along and enjoy the journey.
#100DaysOfCode#buildinpublic#Hacking#cybersecurity
My stack is simple: Burp, Zap, open-source AI pentesting tools, opencode with open-source tools, skills, and MCPs, and for AI APIs, I have 1,000 free requests per day to free models from OpenRouter, and free nararouter access 👇🏾