There are a lot of ways for it to go wrong, eg business competitions, hackathons, etc.
But yes, thanks for the confidence! :)
The best part of it is when I talk to the target users about it and their eyes light up and they get so excited. The problem is huge, and the current solutions are terrible. If we can't make money at this, it's an execution problem, not a market problem.
Second, it is minimally invasive. You don't have to change your process in order to use it.
Third, it shows relationships between systems. An application isn't just source code. It's compiled binaries, OS patches, user security, databases, firewalls, message queues, apis, and more. Here's a common failure pattern - System A changes, System B breaks. System A might actually be perfectly fine and correct, and B as well, but the relationship between A and B is broken. Change the database schema, and the app can no longer read it. Change the dns, and the UI can no longer find the API. For any decently complex application, the potential sources of failure are in the thousands, and potential interactions effectively infinite. Now scale this up to the enterprise, to organizations so large that your app can be broken by departments you didn't know existed...
And yes, once it's working, it will be able to detect such issues.
Three years, a lot of personal cost, false starts, finding co-founders, and other headaches later, and I'm finally getting to where this year, it should start making money. I can't even begin to describe what a difficult experience it's been. Someone once told me the only emotions founders experience are elation and terror. What they didn't tell me is that they are often at the same time, and often for the same reason, and sometimes are indistinguishable from one another.
I'm a founder because I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. Doesn't mean it's easy, or it's going well all the time.
So that being said... if you want to be a founder, and you're a good software engineer (I'm assuming you're tech, that's why you're here), don't even bother coming up with an idea! Instead, go looking for experienced business people who have a real business idea and the knowledge to pull it off - except for the technical skill. Become their tech co-founder. Because there are so many of them, and so few of us, you can afford to be choosy.
If it's someone who has successfully started businesses before, all the better! There are lots of really smart, driven, reliable business people out there with great ideas, but without the technical skill to implement. Find one, and make something great.