Web Application Maintenance
Ongoing care for production web apps — code reviews, security patches, performance troubleshooting.
- Timeline
- Ongoing retainer, 3-month minimum
- Engagement
- Senior, embedded
- Pricing
- Outcome-based
- Discipline
- Web Design & Digital Presence
⏚ Summary
What this engagement is, plainly.
Maintenance is where most products die slow. We provide ongoing engineering care so your live application keeps getting better instead of slowly worse.
Problems we solve
Your team has shipped the product but no one has bandwidth to keep it healthy.
Security patches, dependency updates, and performance regressions are piling up.
A senior engineer left and the system is degrading without their knowledge.
⏚ Approach
How we run this engagement.
- 01Phase
Onboarding deep-dive
Two weeks of system immersion: architecture, runbooks, common failure modes, deployment topology. We can't help if we don't know the system.
- 02Phase
Defined scope, named engineers
Reserved senior hours per month, named engineers, agreed-upon SLAs for security patches, performance issues, and bug triage.
- 03Phase
Quarterly health reviews
Every quarter we audit dependencies, security posture, performance trends, and tech debt. The system gets healthier, not just less broken.
⏚ Deliverables
What you get, signed off.
Onboarding documentation
Monthly maintenance retainer (40 / 80 / 160 hrs)
Security + dependency update cadence
Performance + uptime monitoring
Quarterly health review reports
⏚ Stack we typically use
Tools, not religion.
We pick on workload and team shape, not on fashion. Anything below is a default — swappable when your context demands.
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- Python
- Go
- Postgres
Outcome
A system that stays current, safe, and fast — with senior engineers available when something goes wrong and a cadence that keeps it from going wrong.
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⏚ Engagement Initiation
Have a hard problem worth doing once, well?
We take a small number of engagements per quarter. If your program needs serious operators, we'd like to hear about it.