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An app nobody owns anymore
Metafora built us an app years ago and nobody owns it now. What are our options?
Keep it running, document it, then decide. We'll do a free two-week health check on anything we built or run: what's running, what's at risk, and what it would take to put it under a monthly plan.
Your stack, as you described it
Where people are the glue
- One person knows how it works
- Changes elsewhere break it quietly
Three ways through
- Use what you haveFirst 60 to 90 days
Freeze enhancements, keep break/fix going, and write down what it does and who depends on it. Two months of listening beats a rewrite started in a panic.
- ConnectWhat we'd do
Put an API layer in front so other systems stop touching its database, then run it under one monthly plan with application support included.
- BuildLater, a slice at a time
Replace it one piece at a time, starting with the piece that changes most, once it's under Run and documented.
What happens next
- The health check: two weeks, no fee, a written state of the app.
- Run picks it up from there if you want it to.
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