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As I observe more and more projects announced here that were made during a weekend or in 6 hours, I know for sure:
I will never be able to create a side project in a few hours, setup a website and build the accompanying app to have it all sold before my next monday morning post at HN.
I think, I wouldn't even try this...
Then maybe that's why you'll never succeed in it :)
Web apps don't need legal structure, a brand identity, customers, revenues, profits, hell they don't even need a name.
A startup is a company, attempting to figure out a scalable business model, by creating a product, marketing it, generating revenue, earning profit, etc.
Something created over a weekend, or 6 hours, may be a cool app, or a neat product idea, but is certainly not a startup.
"Am I the only one who can't create a startup at the weekend?" -- your title suggests that you've tried, but your words say you haven't.
Don't disqualify yourself before you try, because until you try, you really never know
That's not to say that anyone is being deliberately dishonest. Most "weekend" projects borrow code from weekday jobs, layouts from ThemeForest, and ideas from weeks of idle brainstorming. It's easy to forget in retrospect all of the time that went into laying that groundwork.
An idea, maybe a rough wireframe all IDE's and tools ready to go.
Every now and then someone gets a good idea that is quick to implement and they are prepared/experienced enough to execute it well, but it doesn't happen as often as your post implies.
Stop beating yourself up! Get back to making something you think is cool!
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison.
The big features that people like, the UI/UX polish that makes it easy to use, the scalable backend that lets it work under load -- those things aren't generally even considered for a weekend project.
That's not to say that there aren't some people who don't produce brilliance over a weekend, but it really is the exception, not the rule.