yeah unless you have very specific requirements I think the baseline here is not building/designing it yourself but setting up an off-the-shelf commercial or OSS solution, which I doubt would take two weeks...
personally I don't have as much trouble wrapping my brain around the Omega combinator as I do around the Y combinator, so I just try to remember that the Y combinator is an omega combinator with an extra f injected at the site of replication, if that makes sense