Actually our current fiat requirements is about $750CDN a month or $9000 a year. But if the SHTF, we could do it now with zero! It took 10 years of work, mistakes, fixing those mistakes, trial , error and lots of testing, reading and doing. It is my hope that by sharing our journey, people can do what we did in 2 years instead. I pray that steem takes off so that you can fund your own project then you can work on that jealousy issue you got going there. hahahaha