Congrats on a great job so far! Don't give up on your project just
yet! I think that what you really need to do is sell off the cards
strong points as opposed to the cards already existing (which are tried
and trusted). I would be looking for more information on your web site
for:
* what images are possible to run - 140K, 800K, 1.44Mb, Hard disk
images?
* methods of transferring images to the CF for different platforms
* a list of images known to work
* screen shots of your card in action
* info on how different images can be selected
* what systems has the card been tested on
* images of a non-prototype board (yes you may have to bite the bullet
and get some PCB's made up)
* maybe even a tabulated list of features comparing your solution with
the existing cards
Basically, I think you probably have a great product, with the
potential to get even better, but you just gotta do the hard sell and
convince everyone else why your product should be used in preference to
the others. Everything you've mentioned about your design sounds great
- its just the missing pieces of info and the fact that it hasn't been
tried and tested by the public at large that is probably holding you
back. When you are in business, even a part time hobby like this,
you've still got to sell yourself and your product.
I for one am in the market for a CFFA type solution soonish, and maybe
if you do your sell right, you may have a customer right here. ;-)