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🚀 Product Launch: AI-native WAF (beta)

An intelligent WAF that goes beyond traditional rule based protection and capable of proactively adapting to evolving attack patterns.

Published on: Jun 17, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #8: We have momentum!

After a frustrating April, May brought us positive vibes... We are on a roll!

Published on: May 30, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
🚀 Product Launch: Felk Console

Introducing Felk Console, one place to visualise and control how Felk monitors and secure your web infrastructure.

Published on: May 15, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #7: We applied to YC, again!

Literally a few hours before the S25 deadline, we applied to YC for the 2nd time.

Published on: May 14, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Written by humans

In the age of LLMs where generating content is trivial and the internet is flooded with AI slop, we value human written content.

Published on: Apr 22, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #6: Thoughts on fullstack frameworks

I tried Next.js and SvelteKit to build simple fullstack apps. Here are my thoughts...

Published on: Apr 21, 2025 | by Billy Lapatas
Quarterly update (Q1 '25)

Q1 2025 was a quarter of pleasant surprises.

Published on: Mar 31, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
MCP - do we really need a protocol for AI?

MCP is intended to be a standard for applications to share contexts and capabilities with LLMs. Why would AI need a specific protocol?

Published on: Mar 21, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Vibe coding - is it even real coding?

There is a lot of hype around "vibe coding", but is it real coding?

Published on: Mar 19, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #5: YC rejected us!

A few days before the YC X25 application deadline, we rushed to submit our application. Yesterday we got a rejection email, a generic one!

Published on: Mar 8, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #4: Maybe we don't have funding?

Fundraising is a lot of work and we are in a rock and a hard place with negotiation terms.

Published on: Feb 12, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #3: Oh, we have funding?

When a VC knocks on your door, the polite thing to do is to hear them out.

Published on: Jan 27, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #2: Have we made a breakthrough?

For the past few weeks, we've been experimenting with ML algorithms and mathematical models to see how we can monitor web traffic in real-time and detect potential cyber attacks.

Published on: Jan 17, 2025 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #1: Bootstrapping

I now have a co-founder! And we are bootstrapping!!!

Published on: Oct 29, 2024 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #0: Things don’t always go as planned

I had to shut down my last startup a few months ago. I failed as a solopreneur, not for the first time. I know I made mistakes and didn't focus on what's important, I want to try again!

Published on: Sep 2, 2024 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #-1: I have failed as a founder

I'm shutting down the startup I've been working on for the past 8 months and ending my solopreneurship.

Published on: May 30, 2024 | by Uditha Atukorala
Founder's Log #-2: I am struggling as a founder

I've been trying to build a SaaS startup for about 7 months now. I have zero customers, no MVP and no funding. I'm running out of my own savings and it's crunch time.

Published on: Apr 18, 2024 | by Uditha Atukorala