Comment by robshep
Your project looks great. Have you looked at the "services" route?
Instead of companies or individuals paying you to build your software, that they may find useful, (and some companies may not feel comformatble funding a bit of software that their competitors could otherwise take for free), you instead provide - through a services company - integration support, customisation, hosted versions, or other tertiary elements of value (such as premium documentation) that keep you focused on your project (albeit via some diversification)
If the software is free (as in beer) then what else might potential users need, that you can monitise.
E.g. Documentation, installation scripts, advanced models don't "have" to be free alongside the code. Just a thought.
Thanks. Yeah that would be great I'm sure. The issue I have is also getting everything started. I've got a bit of a chicken and egg problem where I need users to fund the development, but I need to develop more features to get users.