Sorry, the biggest problems I face at the company I work for are bad management, cronyism, disfunctional leadership... mostly organizational problems that can't be solved by a SaaS.
Even worse, there are a LOT of improvements that could be made but management DOESN'T CARE. It's an oligopoly with huge barriers of entry (an insurance company), so as long as they're not worse than the competition and external factors stay the same, money will still come in.
BTW there's money to be made for software companies... selling bad, overpriced software, as long as the appropriate kickbacks and buddy-ism is followed.
There's a lot of low hanging fruit :P for example the webpage is awful, something out of the early 2000's, the main system is made on Forte4GL and doesn't support 64 bits so we're having huge problems with scaling.. and the list goes on and on and on..
I have yet to find a good reliable publishing company.
I guess this is a nice business idea for ones that live in supported countries. There are many unsupported countries, be it in Europe or other places, with a vibrant developer communities.
I see your goals difficult to accomplish. If a business problem can be solved with an application that will be an easy one.
In general key business problems are really difficult to solve in the context of a particular problem. For example, I can't find employees in a specific niche because there are not enough in the market. How can I solve it? I can train people but that training would take a long time and I can't afford that risk.
I see where you're coming from. Maybe you are not typical of business as a whole since you are (I assume) a tech person and thus very capable of solving your own problems (if they can be solved with tech at all) :)
I like the idea of your book but you seem to be spamming HN for free ideas that you can use to capitalise on. Unless your book will be totally free? I like HN because people can talk about tech without having to feel like you have to pay for it... most of us I believe use HN outside of work or on our downtimes.
Please don't let HN become another internet marketing forum.
Even worse, there are a LOT of improvements that could be made but management DOESN'T CARE. It's an oligopoly with huge barriers of entry (an insurance company), so as long as they're not worse than the competition and external factors stay the same, money will still come in.
BTW there's money to be made for software companies... selling bad, overpriced software, as long as the appropriate kickbacks and buddy-ism is followed.