Non-programmer working on prototype/MVP

TL;DR - I'm a novice coder developing a prototype/MVP using DivJoy.

Several years ago my employer asked me to develop a process to evaluate customer's technical risks. Essentially, I used public data repositories and command line techniques to analyze a customer's Internet-accessible IT resources.

It used to take me ~60 hours so I wrote a bunch of BASH shell scripts to make the process less labor-intensive. The thing is, you can only do so much with grep, sed, awk, and cut.

I want to be a better coder and I want to find a good market niche to play in. So I decided last week to try and turn my previous efforts into a web application. I've re-written several of my shell scripts using Python which has resolved a few of my previous data integrity issues.

I know that I can't create a web app from scratch. I looked at Gravity and DivJoy, because they provide a "kit" that provides access to payments, authentication, even to some degree authorization, etc out of the box.

There were two major considerations involved in my decision of which one to buy and try to use:

1. The Model-View-Controller design is well proven but as a novice coder, beyond my technical abilities. I am not capable of writing either a model or controller on my own.

2. Being bootstrapped for the last two years (with practically no offsetting revenue) has exhausted nearly all of my funding. The cost of Gravity + hiring a coder to write the models and controllers is, unfortunately, outside of my budget.

Based on both of those - I had to eliminate Gravity from the running.

I've been building as much of my web app as I can in DivJoy and then exporting it over to CodeSandbox to see if I can get it compiled and running on Vercel (no, it isn't quite there yet).

It's been a huge boost in my confidence to even get this far. 2+ years ago, I never would've attempted to do something like this. While there are still a lot of things that I have not figured out, I'm excited to continue this powerful learning experience.

I also have to say that @Gabe has been very patient in answering my questions and providing some recommendations for me to try when I get to the part where I'm trying to code the actual service part of the app. I'm very grateful and appreciative.