If you're serious about converting any significant percentage of current MATLAB users (which would be the vast majority of the scientific community), either a J

If you're serious about converting any significant percentage of current MATLAB users (which would be the vast majority of the scientific community), either a JS mcode interpreter or a code translator should be near the top of your list. With that you'll turn heads; without it, everyone will ask why they'd ever throw out their lab's huge library of accumulated, well-understood, thoroughly-debugged (hard!) code. Also, just out of curiosity, what are your guys' backgrounds? Why did you decide to build this instead of something else? Is this something you'll use (or, would have before you stopped whatever you were doing to start this), or did you just identify a market need?