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.

Categories: Hyvä vs PWA Studio

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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