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Maintenance & Support
Post-launch care with clear windows — fixes, upgrades, and the operational hygiene that keeps products trustworthy.
Ongoing retainer or ticketed engagements — cadence agreed upfront.
Problem
Launch without care is abandonment with better branding.
Dependencies drift, incidents recur, and small fixes pile up until the next rewrite fantasy. The team that shipped has moved on; the product has not.
Unlimited “we’re here for you” promises without windows are how both sides get burned. Support needs a model, not a vibe.
Solution
Stay available with an honest support model.
Retainer or ticketed support with agreed response expectations — not an unlimited free forever promise. We will decline systems we cannot responsibly own.
The work is unglamorous on purpose: upgrades, hygiene, and the fixes that keep operators trusting the product.
Who this is for
A fit when the problem looks like this.
- Teams that shipped with us — or elsewhere — and need keep-the-lights-on care
- Companies that cannot hire a full bench but still have production software
- Products whose dependencies and platform have drifted since launch
- Operators who want incident help inside agreed windows, not a vague Slack channel
Capabilities
What we deliver in this practice.
- Bug fixes and small improvements
- Dependency and platform upgrades
- Monitoring follow-through
- Incident assistance within agreed windows
- Light roadmap grooming for keep-the-lights-on work
- Onboarding review before we take on systems we did not build
- Tracked work and release notes for what changed
Process
How this service actually runs.
01
Onboard honestly
A short review of the system, access, and what we will not pretend to own. Decline is a valid outcome.
02
Agree the windows
Retainer or tickets, response expectations, and whether 24/7 is actually in scope (default: it is not).
03
Triage and fix
Bugs, upgrades, and hygiene in a tracked queue. You see what moved and why.
04
Follow the monitors
When alerting exists, we follow through — not a dashboard nobody watches.
05
Groom the small work
Keep-the-lights-on improvements stay visible so they do not silently become a rewrite pitch.
Every serious build still follows the studio path — Discover through Improve. See the full studio process.
Technology
Stack we typically reach for here.
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- AWS
- React
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
AWS
ReactDeliverables
What you leave with.
- Agreed support cadence and response windows
- Tracked work and release notes for changes
- Stability improvements prioritized with you
- Upgrade plan for dependencies in scope
- A written list of what this retainer does not cover
Outcomes
What this is meant to change.
- Production care that does not depend on a hero who already left
- Upgrades and fixes that stay visible instead of piling into a rewrite story
- Response expectations you can plan around — including what is out of hours
Related services
Practices that often sit beside this one.
Timeline
How long this usually takes.
Ongoing retainer or ticketed engagements — cadence agreed upfront.
Starting price
Honest commercial footing.
Quote after a written brief
Scope drives the number. You get a written proposal before build starts — not a surprise invoice after.
This practice typically sits in our Engineering pricing lane — still a scoped proposal, not a menu quote.
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