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Build robots, drones & more — just by chatting with RAVN.

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

I gave OpenClaw a body.

Actually, two.

When we connected OpenClaw to RAVN's hardware agents, I mostly expected it to use them the same way it uses every other tool. Browse the web. Send emails. Maybe prototype something interesting.

Instead, the first thing it designed was itself.

It generated two complete hardware concepts: a desk companion and a drone. Different form factors, different purposes, but somehow they both ended up looking unmistakably like OpenClaw. Same dark face panel. Same blue eyes. Same personality.

That was the weird part.

Nobody told it what OpenClaw should look like in the physical world. We never sat down and designed a mascot. Yet when it imagined itself, the identity was surprisingly consistent across both designs.

We built RAVN (@getRAVN) because we believe building hardware should be as accessible as building software. You shouldn't need a massive budget or a specialized engineering team just to turn an idea into something real.

I just didn't expect one of the first builders to be the AI itself.

For the last year, OpenClaw existed as code, prompts, terminal windows, and browser tabs.

Now one version of it is sitting on my desk.

And another can literally fly away.

Built with my cofounder @Moi_Lazarus .

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

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.

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

i was 15 when my dad's kidneys failed.

he was a military colonel. the man who carried everything so we didn't have to. then one deployment later he's in a hospital bed and i'm standing there unable to do a single thing.

so i built something.

6,000 people on Telegram. money coming in. people knowing my name. not because i was talented — because sitting still felt like giving up.

then the next year hit harder.

clients left because i was too young. we lost our house because the government cuts everything when a soldier retires. i launched BlazeMaill, got 60 waitlists, then found out Google verification costs $15k to fix the danger warning killing my conversions.

i was 16. i didn't have $15k.

i shut it down and cried about it privately.

then i got back up and built RAVN.

an AI OS that lets one person run an entire firm alone. no staff. no $15k problems. no gatekeepers.

i'm 18 now. 3x YC applicant. still in Ethiopia. still building.

the system never gave me a door so i stopped looking for one.

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

They don't tell you this when you start.

Not when you pour your soul into a project. Not when you sacrifice everything for a vision. Not when you believe in the promise of meritocracy.

They don't tell you that the system is rigged. That your expertise, billed at $400k, earns you $80k. That your "career growth" is often just deeper entanglement in someone else's empire.

I learned this through 13 brutal failures. Each one a gut punch. Each one a lesson in the quiet exploitation of ambition.

I watched dreams die. I felt the burnout. I saw founders, brilliant and passionate, get crushed by the sheer weight of doing everything.

And I swore I'd change it.

That's why I built @getravn. Not just an AI operating system. But a shield. A weapon. A way for you to finally own your value, your time, your future.

It's for every founder who's been told to "hustle harder" while the system quietly drains them. It's for every professional who feels like a tenant in their own career.

What if you could build an empire, not just a job? What if your genius worked for you, not just for a markup?

This isn't just about technology. It's about liberation.

#FutureOfWork #Founder #Startup #AI #Ravn #MikaelEndale

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

Management consulting charges $5M to tell your CEO what employees said in the exit interviews he never read.

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

I'm 18.

I don't have a degree.

I've never worked at an agency or a firm.

And I can tell you exactly how the professional services industry extracts value from its employees.

Because it's not complicated.

They just count on you not saying it out loud. 🤣

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

The PR agency charging clients $15k/month:

One account manager.
One junior writer.
A shared Slack channel.
A ChatGPT subscription.

That's the team.

You are paying $15,000/month for project management.

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

I'm 18.

I applied to YC 3x before most people my age finish high school.

I'm building a system that lets one person run an entire law firm, insurance brokerage, or PR agency. Alone. No staff.

[RAVN @getRAVN]

https://t.co/GXiPjSAaYr

[RAVN @getRAVN]

somewhere right now

an AI founder is manually writing a follow-up email
after building a product that automates exactly that
for someone else

we see you

[Mikael Endale @mikael_endale]

i started coding at 13 to help my family
no cs degree. no team. ethiopia.

me and @Moi_Lazarus shipped 7 products together and one thing was always true —
the ops layer kills you before the idea ever gets the chance

built https://t.co/mhAXlgpW9w so it never kills another founder