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> It is 2022, so I had thought it would be tremendously easy and cheap, but it seems no solution is easily implemented.

You assume someone purchased hardware (preferably available anywhere on the planet), powered it up, set it up, connected it to the internet, then built the software to handle your very specific task, then put it online to do specifically what you want and for a close-to-free price? And you're shocked this doesn't exist?

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(Not Op) Yes. The task is specific but not all that unusual. In a world where startups seem to exist to solve every conceivable problem (including ridiculous “problems” that nobody has), it’s always interesting to find something that isn’t nearly solved.

It's not as if we've just had a decade of such unthinkable business strategies. Google is still, for the vast majority of people, free (as in $0 per month) service which gives them free email, document editing, and file storage.

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