[bandrami]

What would you pay for? Every really successful software business I know came from somebody solving one of his or her own problems.

[zdragnar]

I know this is good advice, but it is the thing that holds me back the most. I live a simple life and I literally don't have anything I would pay for that I could also conceivably build myself (any ideas I have tend more towards hardware than software).

[bckr]

Maybe you should build hardware! There are plenty of businesses built on hardware. What's keeping you from going that route?

[zdragnar]

The few ideas I have are for very niche needs (think homesteaders / permies) and I already make enough money writing software for others that the risk of investing in hardware for a tiny, tech-averse market makes it a foolish risk / payoff proposition.

Everything else I could want hardware-wise already has a startup that I would rather support than compete with.