MQED-QD/MQED-QD

MQED-QD is a highly specialized academic tool targeting the nanophotonics and quantum optics research community. With only 5 stars and 0 forks over six months, it lacks commercial or broad open-source traction, appearing more like a reference implementation for a specific research paper or thesis. Its defensibility is low from a software perspective—it lacks a moat or community—but its domain-specific complexity (solving Maxwell's equations in layered media via dyadic Green's functions) provides a minor barrier to entry for non-specialists. Frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic have zero interest in this niche, making the frontier risk low. The primary competition comes from established commercial solvers like COMSOL (Multiphysics) or Lumerical, and well-entrenched open-source photonics projects like Meep or QuTiP. While it solves a harder mathematical problem than a simple tutorial, the lack of velocity and adoption suggests it will remain a niche academic utility rather than a category-defining infrastructure project.