I'm pretty bad at coming up with business ideas, but one that I think would work, if I ever got the time to do it, is a user-friendly x86 router firmware center

I'm pretty bad at coming up with business ideas, but one that I think would work, if I ever got the time to do it, is a user-friendly x86 router firmware centered around the idea of making it as easy as possible to set up and control your network and its devices. On my home network, what I really want is the ability to define one or more networks (VLANs, if you will) and then place devices in those networks. When you click on a device, you are then able to do things like give it a static IP, look at the traffic it's generating, shape its traffic, disallow traffic from/to certain ports, kick it off the network at certain times of day, allow it access to the local network but not the Internet, change its DNS resolvers, etc. In order to do these things on most routers, if they offer the ability at all, you need to jump around to different places in the UI and manage each service as its own thing. OPNSense is great (and it's what I currently use) but it's UI is really just multiple little windows into the various sub-services that the firmware provides. Separate page for all the firewall rules, another for all the DHCP leases, etc. It works, but it's kind of frustrating to use, especially when you're not digging around in it every day. The business model would be: everything open source, but three "tiers" of releases: 1) free "beta" releases featuring new and lightly-tested features for the adventurous. 2) "stable" releases via subscription (paying customers have access to the source code and build tools) 3) "freeloader" releases, the same as "stable" but with a 6-9 month delay. Devil is in the details of course, but if I had any entrepreneurial bent at all, I think it would be a big improvement over the current state of things.