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Ask HN: How much maintenance time do your side projects require?
What is a realistic amount of time it takes, say per month, to maintain a medium-sized (hard to define, but I think you get my drift) web app?
- PaulHoule 10y agoIt's hard to put a number on this. I have had some sites that run for months without being looked at at all. Sometimes a big chunk of work comes up all at once though.
- tmaly 10y agoso far about an hour every 6 months. But I am working on a new look and major features so this will take considerable time.
- mfluderx 10y agoIt depends on how much automation you build in. I just resurrected a side project web app from a few years ago that is completely automated, but it is not very complicated so it probably doesn't count as your defined medium-sized web app. I have no user registration for one thing, as my side project doesn't really need it and I hate having to register on sites to do the simplest things. I do still check the web app about once a month for about an hour, just to run a check on things and make updates if needed, like changes to marketing copy.