A VPN built across a border.
It started with a single Slack message that never sent. One of our founders was on a long work trip in a high-censorship country. WhatsApp was down. Gmail wouldn't load. The team's standup link returned a blank page. Every VPN he tried either refused to connect or got detected within the hour.
The problem wasn't the internet. It was the encryption. Every major VPN on the market uses the same handful of protocols, OpenVPN and stock WireGuard, whose signatures are catalogued by censors worldwide. They are fast, they are cheap, and they are trivial to block.
So we stopped looking for a solution and started building one. Quietly, from a hotel room with nothing but a laptop and a SIM card. A network that doesn't just encrypt traffic, but disguises it as ordinary HTTPS so deeply that even advanced deep-packet inspection can't tell the difference.