TechWithAmardeep

I Built a Hacking Home Lab for ₹0 — Here's Exactly What I Set Up and How I Built a Hacking Home Lab for ₹0 — Here's Exactly What I Set Up and How By Amardeep Maroli  |  May 20, 2026  |  Home Lab, Ethical Hacking, Beginner Setup  |  17 min read Home About Contact Six months ago, I was stuck. I had been doing TryHackMe labs and reading PortSwigger theory, but I wanted something more — a space I fully controlled, where I could practice attack techniques, break things completely, and learn from the mess without worrying about someone else's lab timing out or a platform going down. I also had no money to spend on cloud labs, dedicated hardware, or paid practice environments. So I spent a week figuring out how to build a complete ethical hacking home lab on my existing laptop — a 2019 HP with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD, which is about as average a student laptop as exists — usin...

I Spent 3 Months on Bug Bounty — Here's What I Actually Earned and Learned I Spent 3 Months on Bug Bounty — Here's What I Actually Earned and Learned By Amardeep Maroli  |  May 18, 2026  |  Bug Bounty, Ethical Hacking, Career  |  16 min read Home About Contact Every bug bounty success story you'll find online has the same structure: person starts bug bounty, finds critical vulnerability, earns thousands of dollars, quits their job. These stories are real — but they represent roughly the top 1% of participants. Nobody writes about the first three months. I'm going to write about my first three months. Not because it's a success story — the earnings are modest and I'll give you the exact numbers — but because an honest account of what early bug bounty hunting actually looks like is more useful to most people than another interview with a full-time researcher earning $300,000 a ...

How I'm Becoming an Ethical Hacker With No Degree — My Real Roadmap and Progress in 2026 How I'm Becoming an Ethical Hacker With No Degree — My Honest Roadmap, Progress, and What Nobody Tells You By Amardeep Maroli  ·  May 16, 2026  ·  Ethical Hacking, Career Journey, Personal Roadmap  ·  17 min read Home About Contact About eight months ago I made a decision that still feels slightly irrational when I explain it to relatives: I am pursuing a career in ethical hacking. Not cybersecurity broadly — specifically the offensive side, the part where companies pay you to try to break their systems before someone criminal does it first. I'm an MCA student from Kerala. My academic background is computer science — I came to MCA from a computer application stream. I have no IT job experience. No prestigious college name. No family connections in the technology industry. What I have is...