Using the web as a GUI has become much easier in the last 10 years. The new frameworks allow you to do things in a matter of hours that would have taken weeks

Using the web as a GUI has become much easier in the last 10 years. The new frameworks allow you to do things in a matter of hours that would have taken weeks in the early days (possibly some personal skills bias is coming into play here too). Try out something like RoR or Django. I had the desire to write my own framework for many years, and completed a few half-baked frameworks, but it is definitely worthwhile considering one of the major frameworks. There is a lot of time, thought and effort put into them that you can leverage!