> Get involved with your local community of makers, get them intrigued by your idea and its potential, connect with people that will help you build it.

This will prevent me from patenting it. I can also make first prototype myself, I've started last year, will try to finish this year. Funding would just let me drop one job and make it faster.

> Patent it, and then raise funds via the Internet to try and build it. Seek out local VCs. I know that's a lot to ask, on top of two jobs, but I didn't organize our economy.

I don't have enough money for patenting something that might not work. That's why I need to make a prototype. That prototype will be MUCH cheaper than a proper patent but takes some time which I also don't have too much (but working on it slowly). When I'm sure it works, I already have enough connections to make it actually happen.

At this moment, funding my prototype would just benefit humanity with earlier knowledge of whether it works, so of course no one sane will fund it, that's the sad reality with human priorities.

> I know that's a lot to ask, on top of two jobs, but I didn't organize our economy.

Yeah, I've only asked for tips just in case you have some, I don't blame you or anything. Thank you!

This thread also describes WHY those LK-99 researchers sat on their invention for so long, they just couldn't find enough people interested in their material.

Of course I could just publish my idea, but it's possible that no one would be interested in this and I would like to have some money from this to pursue some other ideas without begging people for support.