Firstly, well done on all your hard work! I'm very excited to see how this will work out.
Secondly, I know that this might be best after the vote, but don't forget to take advantage of community support.
I'm sure that if you set up a Kickstarter or similar, that people would donate to it, now that you've proven your ability to deliver.
I also believe that, given how many programmers we have here, many people will want to make contributions to the codebase. My understanding was that this wasn't really happening before: a) Because the old code base was extremely difficult to get up and running/messy b) Because it wasn't clear who to talk to if you wanted to know if your changes were likely to be approved if you made them.
It looks like a) has been solved, if you also improve b), then I expect a bunch of people will want to contribute.
I don't think there is anything stopping you from trying to create a test LW2 account to see if you will be locked out