Hi, I'm an entrepreneur looking for a startup idea.
In my experience, the reason most startups fail is because they never actually solve anyone's problem. So I'm cheating and starting out by identifying a specific person with a specific problem.
So I'm asking you, what's the most annoying part of your life/job? Also, how much would you pay for a solution?
I heard that some employers ask the job candidates for their GitHub accounts, so they can check the quality of code these people write in their free time. I have no idea how frequent is this; I really hope it doesn't become an industry standard, because I believe in separation between job and free time. But if it does become a standard, here is a business opportunity...
Create GitHub accounts in other people's names, and provide high-quality patches to open-source software from there.
The idea is that you would find someone who is a good programmer and loves contributing to open-source software, but wouldn't mind making some money by pretending that some of those contributions were actually done by someone else. So they could either use someone else's account to submit a few patches from there, or they could have an account with some generic name (i.e. not their own name, but something like "kingoftheinternet2000") they don't mind lending to someone during their interview.