A Made in Mysuru product that can turn your regular bicycle into an electric one in 5-10 minutes!
When we visited SJCE STEP in Mysuru for our meetup two weeks ago, we happened to meet Nishanth Patel, the founder of Karnad Engineering.
What Nishant and his team had built was fascinating. They had developed an small tiny apparatus that can be plugged into a regular bicycle and turn it into an electric bicycle in 5-10 minutes! What made it even more remarkable was that the entire product had been engineered, built, and assembled in Mysuru. They are a proud startup incubated at SJCE Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park (STEP) led by @shivashankar_10.
Nishant's story was so compelling that we immediately decided to do a short recording with him, turn it into an Instagram reel, and publish it on Mundhe Banni Instagram profile.
The response was unbelievable.
Within just two days, the reel had grossed nearly 500,000 views, and Nishant's inbox is flooded with more than 200+ product inquiries.
Yesterday, Nishant messaged me saying that just a week earlier, the team had been feeling low. But suddenly, after receiving 200 plus inquiries, the entire team's energy had changed. They were excited, motivated, and ready to push harder than ever before.
The video also caught the attention of several founders in our network. @vivekanandahr of Bounce reached out and asked to be connected with Nishant. We happily did that.
Moments like these strengthen my belief that there is immense talent, ingenuity, and capability spread across Tier 2 and Tier 3 India. There are people building world class products and breakthrough technologies far away from the traditional startup hotspots. What many of them lack is not talent. What they lack is visibility, exposure, access, and sometimes the cultural confidence to believe that they belong in the same conversation.
Given the right platform and support, they too can build great companies and create meaningful impact at scale. I am 100% sure of that.
And if, in our own small way, we can help accelerate that journey, create a few opportunities, make a few introductions, or shine a light on a deserving founder, there is a deep sense of satisfaction in that. 🫶
Unlocking the potential in tier2/3 India requires a very different approach. It cannot be done through the conventional playbook alone. The realities, aspirations, constraints, and strengths of these entrepreneurs are different. There is also a huge role of language and cultural context involved in bridging the confidence gap. The support systems we build for them must be different too.
That belief is at the heart of why we are building @mundhebanni.
A fine job of storytelling by my colleagues @Shishir_S_U and Daniel naik
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We just built the Lovable for hardware.
I'm 18, based in Ethiopia, and me and my cofounder @Moi_Lazarus got obsessed with one question: why can anyone ship a SaaS in a weekend, but building a physical product still takes 6 months and $50,000?
Software has Cursor. Design has Midjourney. Hardware had nothing.
So we built Ravn.
You describe what you want in plain English. Ravn's AI picks the right components, generates the schematic, routes the PCB, writes the firmware, and sends it to manufacturing. What used to require an electrical engineering degree and months of iteration now takes an afternoon.
In our private beta we've already seen a 16-year-old build his first custom keyboard, a fashion designer create wearables that respond to music, and yes, someone actually built an Iron Man-style repulsor glove. No technical background. Just an idea and Ravn.
There were months where every board we generated had bugs. Weeks where I was convinced we'd never get here. People told me what we were building wasn't possible.
But we kept going. And quietly, without fanfare, it started working.
The next generation of hardware builders is younger, more distributed, and full of ideas the world has never seen, they just needed the right tool.
That tool is now open.
@getRAVN come build something real.
Everyone says AI businesses are slop.
So we built the first platform that runs a real one.
Introducing Vibiz: the first vibe-business platform ever. Hand off your company, let it do the rest: create a brand, build the product, run ads, do gtm, all of it.
Vibe coding gave you apps. Vibe business gives you companies.
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@boardyai@andrewdsouza An an AI platform to display temperatures in various cities across the globe - Polymarket weather traders are the potential audience.
‘I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion’ - Winston Churchill | 1942.
(Recorded privately by Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, during the 'Quit India' protests)
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1943:
Ships carrying Australian grain bypassed starving India to build up food stockpiles for future campaigns in the Mediterranean and Europe.
When the United States and Australia offered to send direct food aid to India, Churchill's War Cabinet refused to release the necessary shipping vessels to transport it.
The Scorched Earth Policy.
Wilful decisions to prioritise Britain.
The Greatest Briton’s decisions for Britain, had consequences on Indians.
@Telegraph It's not called an accusation. It's called history. It doesn't matter to us if you accept it or not. Britain doesn't have the money to repent for any of it anyway. For the morality of your nation though, you can accept the Empire's evils, without handing it over to Pakistanis.
🇬🇧 Helen Cammock’s taxpayer-funded video installation accuses Churchill of “wilfully” inflicting mass starvation on up to 3 million people
Read more about the controversial artist's display ⬇️
https://t.co/gKsmhHiUM9
How To Use Google Flow to Create Consistent AI Characters & Videos | Full Tutorial for Beginners.
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