Tell HN: Someone should start a React Native upgrades / maintenance business

Many years ago, we bet on React Native many years ago for an app that doesn’t need constant updating. We wrote the app, it’s stable, about once every 3 months we fix a bug or tweak something.

Every time we make a change, we have to spend more time trying to deploy the change than actually making it.

Almost always we need to either update Xcode and then tweak lots of random configurations, and/or update React Native and/or update Fastlane. Typically these are only issues in the deployment phase; you can still work on the app just fine. Fixing this is nobody’s full time job and so it tends to end up on my plate (founder/CTO). I didn’t go into business to do React Native upgrades.

… but maybe you could?

I would pay good money for a service where I can add someone to our GitHub, tag them in an issue/PR, and within some reasonable SLA they’ll do whatever is needed so that our app builds and uploads to the App Store and Play Store.

Charge me by the hour or by the project. Even if you work in the open and commit your fixes into our codebase I’ll still hit you up every few months because it’s always a different fix and it’s always buried at the bottom of some random github issue.

If you are a business that does this, please sell to me. If you want to start a business and really love react native (why??), please do this. You will make a lot of money off lazy CTOs like me.