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Software Maintenance & Support
Typical engagement: $6k–$18k / month · Ongoing, month-to-month
What this is
Ubikon runs post-launch maintenance as a monthly product squad: $6k–$18k/month, ongoing month-to-month with no minimum term and 30 days notice. Each month covers infrastructure and monitoring, dependency and security updates, on-call bug response, and small features shipped on the same weekly-build cadence as a full build — scoped and agreed each month, not a vague retainer. It applies to products Ubikon built and, after a codebase audit, products other teams built.
What you get
Concrete deliverables, not a vague promise.
- —Monitoring and infrastructure kept healthy: uptime alerting, error tracking and verified backups
- —Dependency and security updates applied on a schedule, each one recorded in the written changelog
- —On-call bug response triaged by severity — included in the monthly price, never a separate invoice
- —Small features shipped on the standard weekly cadence: a build to open, a video walkthrough, a changelog
- —A line-item scope agreed at the start of each month, so the invoice maps to work you approved
How we build it
Stack and architecture for a typical build.
Whatever your product already runs on — the squad maintains your existing stack rather than migrating you to ours. Our own default stack (Flutter, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) is what we keep five live SaaS products running on, so the monitoring and update habits on this page are practiced daily on our own infrastructure, not invented for clients.
Pricing
Where the number comes from.
The $6k–$18k / month range above is priced from real delivery data across 300+ completed projects — not a day rate multiplied by a guess. A full itemized breakdown by phase is available on a scoping call, or get a rough one now from the calculator below.
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Monthly squad vs ad-hoc fixes vs hiring in-house
If your product generates enough sustained work to keep a full-time engineer busy, hire one — the squad exists for everything below that line.
| Monthly squad (Ubikon) | Ad-hoc fixes when things break | Hiring in-house | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Response time to a bug | On-call response included; bugs triaged by severity, not first-come | Starts with finding someone available, then agreeing a quote | Immediate during the hours you staff |
| Cost shape | $6k–$18k/month, line-item scope agreed monthly, no minimum term | Cheap in quiet months; unpredictable spikes exactly when things break | Full salary plus hiring cost, regardless of workload |
| Knowledge retention | Decisions written down at the time; docs and changelog stay current | Context rebuilt from scratch on every new engagement | Deepest of the three — but concentrated in one person |
| Risk when a person leaves | Low — repo, docs and full IP are already yours | Total — the next contractor starts from zero | High — a resignation can walk out with the product knowledge |
| Best fit | A live product that needs steady care, not a full-time hire | A product with few users, where downtime costs little | Enough sustained work to keep a full-time engineer busy |
Process
Ongoing, month-to-month, start to launch.
Audit or handover
If Ubikon built the product, the docs and decision log already exist. If another team built it, a codebase and infrastructure audit comes first, so month one is scoped from evidence.
Agree the month's scope
A line-item list of fixes, updates and small features, agreed up front — priced by what actually ships, not a vague retainer.
Weekly builds
The same cadence as a full engagement: a build you can open, a video walkthrough, a written changelog — every week.
Leave whenever
30 days notice, no minimum term. IP, repo and docs are already yours, so offboarding is a formality, not a project.
Straight answers
What buyers ask about this service
Do you maintain apps you didn't build? +
Yes — after a codebase and infrastructure audit. The audit establishes what is actually there — test coverage, deployment story, dependency age, monitoring gaps — so the first month is scoped from evidence rather than optimism. Products Ubikon built skip this step, because the docs and the written decision log already exist.
What does a maintenance month actually include? +
Four things, every month: infrastructure and monitoring kept healthy, dependency and security updates, on-call bug response, and small features shipped on the weekly-build cadence — $6k–$18k/month depending on product size and how much ships. Scope is agreed as a line-item list at the start of each month, so the invoice maps to work you approved. It is the wrong fit for regulated compliance operations — HIPAA-grade clinical work or certified audit trails need a specialist firm.
What if we want to leave? +
Thirty days notice, and there is nothing to extract: full IP transfer already holds, the stack is mainstream (Flutter, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL), and architectural decisions were written down when they were made. Leaving being easy is deliberate — it is exactly why staying is safe rather than sticky.
How fast are bugs handled? +
Triage by severity, not first-come: a production outage jumps the queue, a cosmetic issue rides the next weekly build. On-call bug response is included in the monthly price, never a separate invoice. We do not publish a minutes-based SLA — a number invented for a sales page is worse than an honest triage policy — and we work 10:00–19:00 IST, Mon–Sat, which teams needing round-the-clock coverage should weigh.
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