Look at what you want to get out of it. Is your ideal outcome Bill Gates? Linus Torvalds? Or just a safe and pleasant life?

Your options would be something like: Open source it, publicize it. Maybe get hired by an adopter. Maybe you could sell consulting around it.

Patent it, publicize it, sell it.

Patent it, publicize it, license it.

Patent it. Develop a service around it. Grow the business.

Most of this could be done with a bootstrapped approach, or with VC money. If you get VC money or sign any other kind of contract, get a good lawyer first. Don’t make the Spyglass Mosaic mistake.