[WJW]

Which costs even more dev time (and thus more money) to build, especially if you want the automation to be dependable enough that it can run without constant monitoring. Again, fine if you are doing it as a hobby and your time is free but a very questionable use of your time if it costs any normal amount of money.

[sgarland]

This comes down to a skill issue. Not as in “you don’t have the innate skill to do this,” but as in “you haven’t learned the skill such that it doesn’t take forever to do.”

If you want to fork money over to Vercel every month, fine, but assume that this can’t be done reliably and safely while also not taking forever. Did I invest a lot of time in the past learning and honing these skills? Of course. Now they’re useful for something beyond a hobby.