I think it's useful to talk about the skills and tools that are needed. While up until now the skills that you (probably?) needed were programming, memory optimization, UX, user requests and the tools were libraries, ChatGPT, Algorithms, ObjC… the next steps will require you to use different skills & tools. The needed skills are more towards leadership, planning&prioritization, raising funds, marketting and your tools will be people, connections, processes, coordination/partnerships with other businesses. And note here that learning skills requires effort, but also note that it essentially requires the same approach like learning a new programming language. Watch youtube videos, get a book, try&fail couple times, practice… Now just to brainstorm couple ideas for what could be done: - create a list of all potental ideas that could bring in money and sort those by "result/cost" (= bang-for-buck) - ask for donations once a month (post a note, do a popup in the app…) - gather funds in any way possible (create project on geyser.fund, reach out to opensats, hrf, jack…), make it clear to your friends that you need money for Damus. - create a complementary product targetted at businesses (not end customer) and sell them what they need. Handle the Nostr infra for them, etc. - get a part time job next to Damus - sign up for incubator, for new app competitions, etc. - you may be able to get a loan - freeze work on Damus for couple years until there's much bigger userbase - if you would want to go to the VC/Angel route, you can likely get couple bitcoiner angel investors (I think you could get $200k@5M pre-money fairly reasonably). With others we would be happy to support you this way even if we are unlikely see the money back. That said it's also fair to say no.