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Maintenance and Budgeting

Maintenance Cadence​

  • Weekly: error review, flag review, backlog triage
  • Bi-weekly: migration hygiene, dependency review
  • Monthly: performance and cost review, stale feature cleanup
  • Quarterly: architecture and security review

Cost Drivers​

  • Supabase database/storage usage
  • Realtime traffic from chat activity
  • Push/email notification volume
  • Build and distribution pipeline usage

Budget Guardrails​

  • Enforce plan and storage controls
  • Keep heavy modules behind flags until usage justifies rollout
  • Track top cost contributors by module
  • Set monthly budget thresholds and alerting

Reliability Controls​

  • Use staged flag rollout for risky changes
  • Keep SQL-based kill switches documented
  • Avoid direct destructive schema changes without migration fallback

Product-Budget Alignment​

Micro-community positioning supports predictable cost envelopes. The strongest cost control remains intentional community size and controlled feature activation.