I tried talking with funding agencies. As a self-employed/sole-proprietership, it proved to be difficult. I conducted the "mmpdb crowdfunding project" at http:

I tried talking with funding agencies. As a self-employed/sole-proprietership, it proved to be difficult. I conducted the "mmpdb crowdfunding project" at http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/ http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/ . Unfortunately, it's been on delay because of major changes to my work schedule once the coronovirus came. My conclusion from that was it's still easier for me to make money as a consultant than from selling a product. One thing I didn't mention in the paper was that being a consultant on different projects makes it easy to present new talks at conferences, which leads to new work. Continued development of a single project with one focus leads to variations on a theme, feeling sometimes like "have you ever looked at your hand. I mean, really looked at your hand" introspection. You can always email me as follow up. dalke at dalkescientific.