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I'd second the $5k per month. It'll be on 1099 so you will have a tax advantage and take home will look good if you have a lot of Schedule C expenses.

Cloud based IDE's will happen. But unless you have a unique angle on the execution of that code, you will be entering a very difficult arena.

This is a "Class A" problem, and big players are going to spend a lot of bucks in this field. As indicated by mozilla working for years on this product already. So I would say be prepared to go big if you really want to address this need. This isn't really a product for a small lifestyle company.

A potentially interesting idea. To attract visitors, you need to give them a reason to show up. You need to bake this into the foundation of your idea. I discuss this a bit here under the heading "network effects":

http://solsen.net/?page_id=377

Perhaps you could make a deal with a shipper to provide you with a lot of packages, then post these packages on craigslist as a way of attracting drivers.