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How I Made $500 in 30 Days Using ChatGPT as My Ethical Hacking Coach! 💰🛡️
Introduction: When a Noob Met AI
Let’s be real — breaking into bug bounty hunting feels like showing up to a chess tournament without knowing how the knight moves. ♟️😅 I was a total newbie, armed with just Google and a dream. But then I discovered ChatGPT, and everything changed.
Spoiler: In 30 days, I went from “What’s a payload?” to cashing out $500 by finding hidden vulnerabilities. Here’s how I turned an AI chatbot into my hacking mentor — and how you can too.
The Challenge: No Experience, No Clue, No Excuses
Bug bounty platforms are ruthless. I’d spend hours staring at endpoints, getting slapped with 401s and 403s, and drowning in jargon. I needed a shortcut.
Enter ChatGPT. 🤖
Instead of sifting through forums, I asked it things like:
- “How do I test for IDOR vulnerabilities?”
- “What’s the easiest way to find misconfigured S3 buckets?”
- “Explain JWT flaws like I’m 5.”
Suddenly, I had a 24/7 hacking tutor — no judgment, no eye-rolling.
ChatGPT’s Killer Features for Hackers
1. Vulnerability Cheat Sheets 🗒️
ChatGPT summarized complex flaws into step-by-step guides.
Example:
“How to exploit SSTI (Server-Side Template Injection)?”
→ It gave me payloads, testing endpoints, and even example URLs to practice on.
2. Reconnaissance Hacks 🔍
Need subdomains? ChatGPT suggested tools like Amass and Sublist3r and taught me to use Google Dorks like:site:*.example.com -www
3. Debugging Like a Pro 🐞
When my scripts failed, I pasted error logs into ChatGPT. It spotted issues I’d missed, like a missing User-Agent header in my Python requests.
