Mateo Vukusić
Tech Lead, Code CareOwns the relationship and the roadmap for your product. The named person who picks up the call when something's on fire — and the reason it catches fire less often.
For founders & CTOs · When the product is live and quietly rotting
Shipping was the easy part. Keeping it alive is the work.
Code Care is a senior team that maintains, hardens, and improves software that's already in production — so the product you launched keeps getting better instead of quietly falling apart.
From €1.5k–7k / month · Founder reply in ~6h
- Music Supervisor
- 7 years in production
- Engine by MoneyLion
- 3 years, same team
- 5.0 / 24
- Clutch reviews · avg. rating
WHY CODE CARE
A launch isn't a finish line. It's the moment your code meets reality.
Real users hit edge cases your tests never imagined. Dependencies drift. Browsers, devices, and the market keep moving. Code that nobody looks after doesn't stay still — it slowly rots, until a small fix you could have made in an afternoon becomes a rebuild you have to budget for.
An app on an unmaintained, outdated stack is a modern house with old wiring: it works fine — right up until the day it doesn't. Looking after your product is just as important as launching it, and we treat it that way.
A case in point: Music Supervisor — still in production seven years after we built it, on the same database, with us still patching, upgrading, and shipping changes.
WHAT YOU GET
What looking after your code actually buys you.
No jargon, no vague retainers. Here's the concrete difference a cared-for codebase makes — for your users, your team, and your roadmap.
✓
A product that keeps getting better
Bug fixes, upgrades, and small improvements ship continuously — so the thing you launched moves forward instead of slowly drifting backward.
✓
Fewer 2am incidents
Dependencies stay patched, edge cases get closed, and the failure modes that take a product down get found before your users do.
✓
Speed your users feel
Load times, responsiveness, and the rough edges that quietly cost you ratings and retention — looked after on purpose, not when someone complains.
✓
Code your next hire can read
Every change leaves the codebase a little easier to understand. When you do hire in-house, they inherit something they can actually build on.
THE PEOPLE
The same senior engineers — not a ticket queue.
Code Care isn't a help desk. A small, named team gets to know your codebase and stays with it. They're the people who answer when something breaks — and the reason it breaks less over time.
Jelena Vignjević
Senior EngineerReads a codebase the way a good editor reads a draft — finds what's load-bearing, what's quietly broken, and what should never have been written that way. Then leaves it better than she found it.
Zvonimir Ivašković
Senior EngineerTreats a maintenance ticket like a product decision. Fixes the bug, then asks why the bug was possible — and closes that door too.
HOW WE WRITE IT
We write code for the next developer — not just the computer.
The IT industry runs on false hopes, and not everyone can write "clean code": the kind that survives years of change. Plenty of developers forget they're not only writing for a machine — they're writing for whoever opens the file next.
So whether we're fixing your code or rewriting it, we leave it clear enough that the next person — ours or yours — can read it, extend it, and trust it.
IS THIS YOU?
Two reasons teams hand us their code.
You don't have to choose between "do it all yourself" and "hand it over completely." Code Care works either way.
01
You don't have an in-house team.
Hiring and onboarding engineers costs months and serious money. You need your live product looked after now — by people who've done it before.
WHAT WE DO
A senior Code Care team takes ownership of maintenance and improvements, so the product keeps moving while you focus on the business.
02
You have a team — but not this specialist.
Your in-house team is good, but small. Sooner or later you hit a gnarly upgrade or a hard-to-find expertise gap that stalls everything else.
WHAT WE DO
We slot in alongside your team for the specific, difficult work — without you having to hire a full-timer for a problem that's temporary.
START HERE
Let's keep your product in good hands.
Tell us what you've shipped and where it hurts. We'll tell you honestly what Code Care would look like for your product — and who on the team would own it.
Book a discovery call →From €1.5k–7k / month, sized to your codebase. See tiers →
QUESTIONS
What founders ask us before starting.
The honest answers — the same ones you'd get on a call.
What if our codebase is in rough shape?
Then you're exactly who Code Care is for. Messy code makes the work more tedious — it doesn't make us walk away. We've yet to open a codebase we couldn't read.
How long until we see a difference?
The first fixes ship within the first couple of weeks. Some jobs are a two-week tidy-up; a deep upgrade can run a few months. Once we've read the code, we tell you honestly which one yours is.
We have our own developers — why would we need you?
In-house teams are usually mid-feature and moving fast, which is exactly when the careful, unglamorous maintenance work slips. We do the part that's easy to keep postponing.
Do you take over everything, or work with our team?
Either. Code Care can own maintenance end-to-end, or sit alongside your team for the specific upgrades and expertise gaps that would otherwise stall the roadmap.
What does it cost?
A fixed monthly retainer, sized to your codebase and how much you want us to own. No hourly games, no surprise invoices — and we'll quote it after the first read-through, NDA signed.