What G8KEPR Is, in Plain English
The security startup I build on nights and weekends, explained without the jargon: what it guards, how it does it, and where it runs.
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The Licensed Retro Emulation Business I Talked Myself Out Of
I spent some time on the idea of selling legal, licensed retro game systems to bars, offices and streamers. The tech is the easy part. Here's why the licensing sank it, and the smaller ideas that looked more realistic.
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Why It Runs in Your VPC (and Nothing Leaves)
G8KEPR is self-hosted by design: deployed with Helm or Terraform, sitting in your request path, sending zero bytes out and charging nothing per token. Here's the reasoning.
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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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From Do-Everything Platform to Correlation Engine
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.
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Open Source for About a Day
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.
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A Scorecard Instead of a Vanity Metric
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.
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Why Security Tools Shouldn't Phone Home
A security tool sees your most sensitive traffic, so where it sends that traffic matters. The trust argument behind keeping G8KEPR entirely inside your own infrastructure.
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From 1.0 to 1.5: Reading G8KEPR's Changelog as a Story
G8KEPR went GA on April 14, 2026 and reached v1.5 by May 9. A walk through that stretch of the public changelog, and what I think a changelog is actually for.
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P0: Blocks Belief
Every G8KEPR task list runs from "P0 — Blocks belief/purchase" down to "P4 — Polish". Why belief is the right word for a security product, and how it keeps a solo founder honest.
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A Free Scanner as the Front Door
The plan, not yet shipped, for a free MCP security CLI scanner: why I'd give a tool away, and the questions it's meant to help people running MCP servers answer.
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