I like #1. Making money from that will be tough complex. Thing about how you can turn this into a product big-corp will want to shell out thousands of dollars

I like #1. Making money from that will be tough complex. Thing about how you can turn this into a product big-corp will want to shell out thousands of dollars on. (selling to individual programmers will be tougher since they are used to GNU being free) Think about who might be interested in bundling your tool with an existing software/monitoring package.