Sounds like we should poison this vector (and IPFS) by uploading copyrighted movie torrents to this free storage system. For a change we’d be doing good.
But combined with the insane browser expectation of being able run unsigned JS and such from anywhere, you could probably host an entire simple text forum on whatever public chain as long as no one cares about it being fast.
Direct API is nice but any block chain explorer service would work in a pinch.