Maintenance cost over 3 years?

Q: Maintenance cost over 3 years?

Concrete numbers from real engagements: Hyvä: $5-15k/year. One stack (PHP + Tailwind + Alpine), one build pipeline, one mental model. Magento upgrades are mostly transparent. Hyvä parent theme upgrades take 1-3 days per major version. PWA Studio : $50-100k/year. React expertise on retainer, GraphQL schema upkeep, Apollo cache tuning, service-worker debugging, SSR config maintenance, bundle-size budgets policed every PR. Magento upgrades require coordinated GraphQL contract testing. PWA Studio version bumps occasionally rewrite half the codebase. Over 3 years that’s a ~$240k delta on maintenance alone, on top of the 8x build cost gap. The cost difference compounds, every quarter you stay on PWA Studio costs more than the equivalent quarter on Hyvä.

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Concrete numbers from real engagements:

Hyvä: $5-15k/year. One stack (PHP + Tailwind + Alpine), one build pipeline, one mental model. Magento upgrades are mostly transparent. Hyvä parent theme upgrades take 1-3 days per major version.
PWA Studio: $50-100k/year. React expertise on retainer, GraphQL schema upkeep, Apollo cache tuning, service-worker debugging, SSR config maintenance, bundle-size budgets policed every PR. Magento upgrades require coordinated GraphQL contract testing. PWA Studio version bumps occasionally rewrite half the codebase.

Over 3 years that’s a ~$240k delta on maintenance alone, on top of the 8x build cost gap. The cost difference compounds, every quarter you stay on PWA Studio costs more than the equivalent quarter on Hyvä.

Maintenance cost over 3 years?

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