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yeah, thank you for the kind comments about not needing money (aka: my time as no value) and asking me to build the prototype with irony.

As I said, the project was started a few years back, and since I did not have the time to work on it, maybe it means my life does not give me the time and money to build this on the side.

But I'll always find it funny how half of the people go "you need to have solid theory proofs before" and the other half goes "where is the working code".

As I said we just started some housekeeping and are not ready to start, and as many point out, it's hard to make money on infrastructure. I know, I did not ask how to make money on this. The idea is to keep the base as open as possible and make money on other service built on this. I was only asking on pointers to funds interested on tech loosely connected to this. And if they don't like our current state or something else fine, no need for you to do their job, and in a witty way, too.




> yeah, thank you for the kind comments about not needing money (aka: my time as no value) and asking me to build the prototype with irony

The world (read: the investment community) doesn’t care about your time though. If you are going to pitch an infrastructure project that should work in software without a working demo, you’re going to have to take a huge haircut on valuation.

If you want to be successful with a theory and proofs, join academia and publish them. If you want to get investors for infrastructure, make something that works.

Academia churns out “protocols on paper” every year that go absolutely nowhere. You need to differentiate yourself if you’re looking for more than a research grant.


Doubtful anyone is going to throw money at you for some random idea, that you won’t even invest some of your free time on. You clearly don’t value it, so no one else will.




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