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Did anyone ask for a bug hunter? No? Well, here I am.

This is an old story and special to me, but I wanted to write about it because it was my first time seriously finding bugs in someone else's software. Not bugs in my own code where I already knew which questionable decision probably caused them. Actual bugs in an actual product that someone else had built.

There was a competition where participants had to test a company's website and report as many useful bugs as possible. I participated randomly despite having almost zero experience in software testing.

There was just one small problem.