@jefftj86, you share your journey very well! Thank you, your posts are inspiring. Please continue. I also do not consider myself a coder, but if you are patient and attentive, you can build very interesting projects in Repelit. 
In many aspects, my project is similar to your and just yesterday I migrated the production database from neon.us to neon.eu, since my clients are in Europe. I also switched to a dedicated server in Hetzner in the EU, so now I am GDPR compliant.
You can read my journey here 
How I got GDPR compliance and how self-hosting helped me with a near million-line (still 30% left) production app