I toyed with the idea of creating something like that a year or so ago. I have a company that makes a tool which simplifies desktop development a ton, and that

I toyed with the idea of creating something like that a year or so ago. I have a company that makes a tool which simplifies desktop development a ton, and that was previously the blocker to people trying to do this which is why there are so many products that claim to be targeted at everyone but start with a Linux CLI. So, can you make it brainless? Sure. Writing a nice desktop GUI that spins up a VM, logs in and administers it for you is easy. But ... who will buy it? The problem is that self-hosting isn't something that seems to solve a problem faced by non-technical people. Why do they want it? Privacy is not workable, because beyond most people just not caring, it's turtles all the way down: the moment you outsource administration of the service your data is accessible to those people. Whether that's a natty GUI or a cloud provider or a SaaS, unless it's a machine physically in your home someone can get at your data. And with supply chain attacks not even that is truly private really. Cost is clearly not viable. Companies give SaaS away for free. Even when they charge, other corps would rather pay Microsoft to store all their supposedly super-confidential internal docs, chats and emails than administer their own email servers. Usability: no. Big SaaS operations can invest in the best UI designers, so the self-hostable stuff is often derivative or behind. What's left?