[drekipus]

In the true business sense, you can see a need and fill a need.

But the thing to remember is that the other stakeholders have decided that it's not worth the investment for them. It might've upset others in meeting, but that's a temporary thing.

Especially when this is new fandangled software, they're not willing to risk the development costs just to make some front end.

You must look at yourself as another stakeholder in this business. You could ask for extra resources to build a front end and get more responsibility, but that's only if you can argue that it's worth it to the company as a whole.

Most employment contracts have some sort of line along the line of "All work you do this property of the company" anyway.

Usually the only way you can do this, is by making something on the down low and selling it to competitors