Thanks for these comments. I've adjusted the intro paragraph taking out the emphatic statement about the direction of the project.
It did take me about 45 minutes to deploy to Leapcell the first time. The video tutorial that I based my work on (linked to in the article) is 24 minutes itself. This time effort is different from forking the project and running it locally. Which is rather quick. Maybe 10-15 minutes. My time estimation is for deploying FastOpp to Leapcell.