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I am curious to hear other peoples experience with applying for tech grants for products that are not growth or monetary in nature, but could still prove useful as either an exhibition of technology for a company, or as a tool for students/the public.
Are there avenues to search or apply for these sorts of things?
E.g. I have a project that am 50% done with (as far as my skills allow), but would need a small grant to complete the project. I have high belief in its potential to be highly functional and quite beautiful. It would be appropriate in universities, computer museums, and in home. How do I get someone to listen to what I have to say, short of coming up with "funders," given that there is little to no immediate monetary value?
Flask was my favorite but is hard to keep organized without much of a toolkit or recommended dev patterns baked in. I recognize that blueprints really help, but a consistent cross-project organization would be nice.
The transition to padrino was welcomed due to a lot of basic structure that is consistent in all projects, but unsustainable due to a functionally dead community (#sinatra has 25 people at max and nobody talking, #padrino has maybe 8).
Rails is far too much bloat to just be serving JSON (benchmarks show that sinatra is 4-8x faster...) and implies TOO strict a structure to development (also, being a python person...I don't appreciate magic).
What do you recommend?