I'm not certain that brainstorm is the best place for SW requests, to me it seems community oriented and not geared towards individual developers.

I've been interested in the idea of a bounty system for a while; my idea was that various people say "I'm interested in X and I'm willing to pay Y for it" and if it got to be big enough a developer could use that to decide if there would be any ROI. Of course they would probably get about 1% of promised, but eh.