Given your destination was the Mac app, why not Swift/SwiftUI rather than Rust/Tauri? Just curious is all.

Don’t know if this is real or not but if the person was hired in 2000 they likely received stock at $35/sh worst case. And follow on grants. It’s $450 now so I assume, at least financially, the arrangement worked well?

Novel approach to optical detection which is faster than current approaches and can be incorporated on an IC.

Great summary of need and reasearch

If you are self funding, and/or funding from friendly, unsophisticated investors initially, consider first an S-Corp (that’s just an IRS election) then transition to C when you have your first professional funding and need multiple classes of stock. Easy taxes, your portion of the losses just go on your 1040. Only a single class of stock is allowed though thus the transition when you take investment from professional investor.