I'm Akilesh Nairy, founder of Monarc (usemonarc.com) — a cybersecurity platform I've been building solo since February 2026. The problem I kept seeing UAE SMEs face AED 20M penalties under the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) but most have no idea if their websites are even secure. Every tool I found was either enterprise-priced or required a dedicated security team to operate. What I built Monarc scans websites for vulnerabilities using Nuclei under the hood, runs on a Next.js + Railway arch

How I built a website vulnerability scanner for UAE PDPL compliance as a solo founder
Akilesh
