SDR has always had a bad reputation with CW. Various excuses have been used over the years. I think Peaberry CW has proven this is simply because we never had the right software architecture. There were technical issues for which I had no precedent or published research to build on. But all the difficult problems have been solved.
It took about four months to get Peaberry CW where it is today. Imagine the salary of a software engineer and divide by three. That's what it cost to make this Open Source software available. There's still a lot I'd like to do. Unfortunately, I have expenses like food, housing, health insurance, and so on. Selling radios doesn't come anywhere near covering these expenses. The Peaberry projects are very much a labor of love.
Right now I'm looking for a job. Development will slow substantially. However, you may be able to help create a different reality. Here's some thoughts...
Spread the word. Let your club, mailing lists, forums, twitter followers, and facebook friends know this project exists. It's possible there's an untapped market of CW enthusiasts who can support development a while longer with the purchase of radios. I'm sure these folks aren't actively looking for SDR solutions because the bad reputation has been around for more than 15 years. So we have to go find them.
I've been looking at crowdsourcing (kickstarter/indiegogo/etc.) but this isn't my area of expertise. I've never seen a ham radio project get funded. Hacker SDRs get funded all the time but they have a substantially larger market than hams who need FCC part 97. If you have experience with successful crowdsourcing and want to run a campaign, please let me know.
Sometimes, open source projects get grants or fellowships. Maybe you are or know of a philanthropist who likes what I'm doing and wants to write a big check.
Flex has all but abandoned the low-end SDR market. Their $700 entry level radio can't even do CW as well as a Peaberry now. Perhaps there's an opportunity to turn the Peaberry project into a real company. I think an all band Peaberry with 5-10W output would be extremely popular but it would have to be factory-built which I can't afford to do. I'd need a business guy, an investor, and so on. I've started several conversations along these lines over the years but they never went anywhere.
If you know C++ and Qt you could contribute code. It's fairly advanced code so you'd probably learn some interesting things along the way. For example, all concurrency is lockless; not a single mutex in the entire application.
[Insert your idea here.] Whoa. I hadn't considered that.