Ask HN: Need your help to figure out how to make money out of my project.

4 points by justavm 6 years ago · 2 comments · 2 min read

Hi All,

I wrote a Dakvik VM from scratch in C with the following major features below, need your help to find my next steps.

* >1M instructions on STM32 based BluePill board(<$3). * Precise compacting GC. * Interrupt support. * Native C interface generator. * Platform abstraction layer for HW peripherals. * Arrays, Float, Switch, Exception, Interface, Multiple inheritance, dynamic and etc. * Believe or not RXJava lie programming is possible, sort of :).

Features not available on master branch; * MultiThreading (Developed a simple preemptive rtos for cortex m but not integrated yet.) * Shared Library support. (Working on a bare metal project for Cortex M series.)

QUESTIONS As a freelancer/remote engineer I want to make money out of this. * From your experience what are my options? * What do you think is the best way to generate money out of this project? * Open Source(which license) or proprietary license? * What do you think about doing a Kickstarter project in this Covid19 days? * Creating a Udemy course? How I can protect ownership of the code? Can I survive with it as a family? * Selling it to a company? * Landing to a remote job around this tech? * Any idea how Oracle vs Google lawsuit will end, Do you think my customers will need to pay to Oracle or Google? * Can I find support/funding to bring Kotlin or Groovy like language to embedded world with no java involved rather than compiler it self written in Java. * What you would love to have as a way of programming for small devices?

The only thing i know for sure is make it free for makers/hobbyist. I am familiar with other solutions out there from different VMs to languages especially the low hanging ones but would love to hear in depth information.

Best Regards

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