I'm 15, self-taught, from Kerala — I just opened the waitlist for India's first AI hardware design platform. Here's the real story behind it.
Most hardware founders in India have the same problem:
SolidWorks costs ₹3–8 lakh/year. Simulation tools are
separate. Finding manufacturers means cold-emailing
factories for weeks. The whole process takes 6–18 months
before a single prototype exists.
I've been building Kepler-442 to fix that — a browser-based
platform where you describe your product in plain English,
AI generates a 3D model in seconds, 12 engineering tests
run automatically on every save, and you're connected to
50,000+ verified global factories — all in one tab.
Before writing a single line of code, I interviewed 56
hardware founders to make sure I was solving a real problem,
not just a problem I imagined.
I'm 15, completely self-taught, building out of Angamaly,
Kerala. No investors yet. No team yet. Just the product
and the conviction that India needs this.
The waitlist is live: https://keplar-442.in
Would love brutal feedback from anyone who's actually tried
to build hardware in India. What would make this useful
for you?