Building a Security Startup by Myself
One founder, a Delaware C-Corp, evenings and weekends, and a codebase with more lines of tests than lines of code. Here's what that ratio says about how I build.
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One founder, a Delaware C-Corp, evenings and weekends, and a codebase with more lines of tests than lines of code. Here's what that ratio says about how I build.
Thread: Building G8KEPR ↗G8KEPR started as an AI security platform that tried to do everything. In September 2026 I narrowed it to the one thing that's actually different, and kept most of what I'd built.
Thread: Building G8KEPR ↗On September 9 I decided G8KEPR would be open source under Apache-2.0. On September 10 I changed my mind. Both days had good arguments.
Thread: Building G8KEPR ↗How I keep score on G8KEPR with a feature scorecard graded 0 to 10, why it leaves out anything about clients or partners, and the P0-P4 lists that decide what I work on next.
Thread: Building G8KEPR ↗My build loop for G8KEPR: a plan in Todoist, a tracker page, three DEV briefs, and three Claude Code windows working in parallel while I supervise until it's done and tested.
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