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Tony's avatar

Sorry, mistake on my part with the contact email.

Please use hello@molydyn.com if you want to reach out to Matt.

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Overall, I had some critical comments earlier, but I'm going to try to use Molydyn but will need to implement all the LAMMPS stuff which will require figuring out how to set up LAMMPS on Windows. Molydyn figures out where I'm going to get the CPU power from.

I see the potential for a machine I can stuff coins into and it spits out realistic models in a .xyz or .cdx file for structures and a .csv of properties that I can use to get a picture of why a structure has specific properties rather than just handwaving at sterics or electronics or 'VDW forces go brrr'.

I can incorporate that 'less-than-a-blind-guess insight' into tech sales and planning of new product dev. The service as is only gets you the middle part of the process and it could be a tough sell (low value add) to market this service to hardcore comp chemists who are probably have a career/thesis invested in doing it their own specific way.

There is a big overlooked thing here about Molydyn having a foothold to take LAMMPS and MD to the masses where you would have a larger customer base to support doing more cool things. DFT models - for all its criticism - made a splash in quantum models because it was less scary and easier to pick up, it democratized the field though it may have traded some accuracy and 'commoditized' the process a bit (everybody doing wonky DFT calculations in their synthesis paper). But at least it got more people taking about the field than if we were still running pure ab initio calculations.

Also, the Purchase Credits tab is very hard to understand. What's going on here when I put in 1, 10, 100, etc.? One credit = how many dollars. And then there's apparently some free credits for buying specific numbers of credits?

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