do you want to have a chat by Whatsapp then I can show you quite the opposite! :-) And in my case: Nobody knows, only one friend who is also deep in the stuff; people doing this are usually more quiet, since nobody is interested at all. I have some contacts in academia and shared my ideas with them - none of them said: "this wont work"
(Disclaimer: 25+y IT experience, 15 of them in finance)