I'm not sure if I've understood your comment. Let me play devil's advocate for a while: How can a "set-it-and-forget-it" web service exist from the service pro

I'm not sure if I've understood your comment. Let me play devil's advocate for a while: How can a "set-it-and-forget-it" web service exist from the service provider's POV? You always need to do small things like monitoring your servers and making sure they're all up-to-date and still working. This is ongoing maintenance cost. Additionally, you need electricity and some place to put your servers (be it virtual or physical). Also, running something unprofitable out of your own pocket works as a hobby maybe, but not for a company at scale. You need to pay your employees. Even as a hobby it's problematic because you can only do it so many times until your regular income is exhausted.