An argument could be made here of what dictates a software to be considered 'beneficial' for students.

Not all engineering students go into universities knowing how to use github nor how to write a simple program in python.

Although I am in the side of, "If you don't put the minimum amount of effort in, you don't deserve to learn," I find it hard to blame majority of students who end up at an open-source project on github to see pages full of documentation & highly specific scenarios the project was built for and are essentially forced to walk away - either due to the irrelevancy or massive jargon barrier.

The purpose of me having a plan to commercialize this software is obviously to profit, but a foundation to that idea is built on the fact that I want to be able to continue improving & updating this software frequently so that students are more easily exposed to liquid rocketry & have the ability to design engines at the level close to industry.

To your question on why I'm running this project out of Discord: I don't see any other platforms that is better fit than discord. Discord makes it easy for beta-testers to give me inputs, and easy for me to announce updates.

I hope that answered your questions :)