I built a side-project 3 years ago: http://www.thecaucus.net http://www.thecaucus.net I spent quite a bit of time getting it off the ground, but over the last

I built a side-project 3 years ago: http://www.thecaucus.net http://www.thecaucus.net I spent quite a bit of time getting it off the ground, but over the last 2 years, I've spent maybe ~10 hours in total keeping it running. The only times when I've had to invest time into it, is when a certain piece of my tech stack gets deprecated or discontinued. For example, I had originally done login-auth through a SaaS provider, which then got acquired by a larger company which discontinued their API. I then had to go through their migration process to keep the site running. However, the above doesn't happen all that often, especially if you choose stable technologies and companies. Besides that, I had consciously designed the site to be completely free of manual maintenance, even if it involved more upfront costs. Examples: - Going serverless via Heroku - Using SaaS services like RDS, S3, SendGrid etc - Using scripts and cron-jobs/heroku-schedulers to automate anything that needs periodic maintenance - Relying on "push" alerts as opposed to "polling" alerts. Ie, when something goes wrong, your server should notify you immediately. Instead of waiting for you to periodically check some dashboard More details: https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/caucus-tech-stack/ https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/caucus-tech-stack/