Ask HN: Soliciting senior project ideas for solving dev processes

A friend and I are soliciting ideas for our senior project starting in the fall. We are especially interested in solving some of the pain points surrounding developer tools and processes.

Our experience is mainly focused on Python web applications using both Django and Flask extensively with both SQL and NoSQL backends. We aren't set on a Python web app, but it would certainly get us up and going quickly.

There are also a number of technologies that we are interested in that we haven't yet gotten a chance to play around with, and we view this project as an opportunity to get some in depth experience with one or more of these technologies. Things like (angular|ember|node|backbone).js.

Our current leading idea is to create a tool for helping in the handoff of code from developers to release management.

So, what are your largest pain points when developing? What problems have you told yourself that you would fix if you just had the time? Let us know.