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Someone to keep your app running

The part nobody wants to own. Your app is live and someone has to notice when it stops, renew the things that expire, and answer when it breaks. Three plans, cancellable any month, and none of them lock you in for a year.

from $250/month cancellable any month

The problem this solves

A live application is not a finished thing. Certificates expire. Dependencies get security patches. The free tier of something you forgot about gets discontinued. A provider changes a default and your deploy stops working.

None of that is hard. All of it needs somebody whose job it is to notice, and for most small teams there is nobody — so it gets noticed by a customer, which is the expensive way to find out.

The three plans

Watch — $250/month
Checked every minute, day and night; if it stops answering you hear it from us, not from a customer. Hosting and certificates renewed before they expire. Backups, and a restore actually performed every quarter. Dependency and security updates. An answer the same working day. When something breaks, a fixed price to fix it before we touch anything — usually $250 to $750, quoted the same day.
Operate — $600/month
Everything in Watch. Something is down: we start within four hours, 09:00–19:00 Kyiv time, Monday to Friday — outside that, first thing the next morning. Small changes and fixes to the system we operate, up to four a month and each a day or less, never quoted one by one. Anything bigger gets a fixed price before we start. A monthly note: what changed, and what we are watching.
Partner — $1,200/month
Everything in Operate. Two days of development every month, reserved for you and booked at the monthly call — unused days do not carry over. Your incidents are picked up before any Operate or Watch work, and Partner is capped at two clients so that means something. A call every month about what to build next, and what to drop.

Why it starts with a check

Watch starts after a Production check. We do not monitor a system nobody has read — it would be selling you the feeling of cover rather than cover. The check tells us what is likely to break so that monitoring it means something, and it tells you whether the monthly cover is even the right thing to buy.

What you are not signing

No annual contract, no notice period, no minimum term. Cancel at the end of any month and the repository, the servers and the runbook are already yours — they were yours the whole time.

And no uptime guarantee, because a percentage in a contract does not keep anything up. What is written down instead is when we start and what we do, which is the part that actually changes the outcome.

Questions people ask first

What counts as "small changes" on Operate?

A day or less, on the system we operate — a copy change, a new field, a report, a fix. Up to four a month, never quoted one by one, so you can ask without doing arithmetic first. Anything bigger gets a fixed price before we start.

Do you work weekends?

Not on Watch or Operate. Incident response is 09:00–19:00 Kyiv time, Monday to Friday; outside that it is first thing the next morning. If your business genuinely needs somebody at 3am on a Sunday, you need more than one person, and we will say so rather than take the money.

Can you take over something you did not build?

Yes — that is the usual case. It starts with a Production check either way, because reading it is what makes the rest possible.

What if I only need this for a few months?

That is a normal reason to buy it. Cancel any month. A launch, a funding round and a seasonal peak are all fine reasons to have cover for a while and then stop.

Ask about this A written answer within one working day. Sending it commits you to nothing.

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