AWS already provides hosting for static sites, as does Firebase. GitLab and GitHub both APIs. It really could be as simple as Blogger is today with little effor

AWS already provides hosting for static sites, as does Firebase. GitLab and GitHub both APIs. It really could be as simple as Blogger is today with little effort from Google. Building a community around static sites is nothing new. Jekyll, Hugo and many other static site generators have been doing this with embedded comments using Disqus and other providers. Hugo already provides internal shortcodes for all these features and more, as well as analytics. It is really just a matter of creating some great templates for people to start using and automating the deployment (or migration) portion of the website so that users that don't want to deal with any additional steps can do it from a single interface.