P.S. I am 3 years older than you and I began coding at age 13. Perhaps if you are a coder, you can relate how difficult it is to code at your age as you did at a younger age, because energy levels, interests, and focus changes. But I am pretty much hyper motivated by this time with all the water under the bridge the past 3 years. And besides, I am an extremely type A, overachiever any way. And even for example, still striving to be competitive in sports with guys 3 decades younger. But still, it isn't easy trying to recover from an "incurable" chronic illness, trying to work 14 hours a day coding, and trying to train hard. I am having difficulty fitting it all in and dealing with the fact that my body gets extremely exhausted and needs sleep.
I wish that I could help you bolster your point, but I can't code for shit. Hats off to you. I couldn't program "Hello World" from scratch, if my life depended on it. However, I do now how to copy and paste and I took the liberty to
copy and paste the DAO code into notepad. I find a little over 1000 lines of code, much of it comments. I guess is this is good, since it helps a total layman such as myself get an inkling what is going on. However, even if this code was original, which I doubt; how long would it take someone proficient in coding javascript to come up with this? I highly doubt it took 150 million USD worth of effort.
What scares me more is someone such as myself, with absolutely no programming skills, can just copy and paste this DAO code, make a few modifications, and then unleash it on the community. Maybe it wouldn't raise millions, but getting $25.00 out of it would far surpass the true value of the work involved.
I certainly hope you get to feeling better and can bring your aspirations to the altcoin world and dazzle us. It doesn't take long for many in this scene to become jaded.