Hi wcneill hope you are having a wonderful day!
Having been on this forum for over a year now, I have yet to see any solution that has not required learning new skills and software libraries.
Many of of the automated frameworks that say make things easy often have learning curves which are as steep as some programming languages, less flexible and when they break are seriously difficult to fix.
If I were in your position, I would try and build the teddy bear classifier, many total beginners have built this application.
See the links below for guidance
https://fastai-v3.onrender.com. - Working starter app using CSS, Javascript, HTML, Docker and Starlette.
https://course.fast.ai/deployment_render.html - instructions for deploying on render and using Docker once done this can be used locally or on any server platform in the universe that supports docker.
Share you work here - highlights - Wonderful ideas and applications that people have created.
Deployment Platform: Render ✅ - Solutions to many of the problems you may encounter while trying to deploy your app.
You do not have to learn the whole framework or language just the bits you need to make your program work.
If you do find a flexible framework or strategy that requires no learning of new skills etc. please share it on this forum we’d all love it.
ps. It took me about 5 weeks to deploy my first app once I started it, but now I can build a simple app in hours or a day.
Hope this helps
Cheers mrfabulous1 