Hey, thanks for the feedback and the ideas, much appreciated!
My main goal is to keep evolving the project.
Ideally, I'd prefer it to be free and accessible for non-commercial use, which leaves room for monetization with commercial use.
At this stage though, it needs more people working on it, which calls for a source of funding.
For crowdfunding, some benefits for contributors could be
- To be credited
- To get account features/preferences
- To get hardware kits
But would that be attractive enough? And how to bring it to potential contributor's ears in the first place?
Are there services that build you a crowdfunding campaign, say for a part of the funds?
I'm also pondering undecidedly about angel investors, venture capitals and collaboration with established companies.
The store? I think it might actually work, but wouldn't that move the focus from the project to logistics and trade?
I've thought about a store (thus the "under construction" store page on the site) but more as an auxilliary side-part of it.
I guess you may be right though. As you say, it's open source (currently) - same as Arduino and they've chosen to sell hardware.