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Ongoing Support & Optimisation

Rocket Lab's Ongoing Support & Optimisation service keeps a live web or mobile product running smoothly after launch: monitoring, fixes, performance tuning, feature work and upgrades, whether we built the product or are taking it over from another team.

Illustration: a support board for a live product: monitoring live, bug fix resolved, performance tuned, feature request shipped and upgrade scheduled.
  • Founded 2014, Sydney and Melbourne team
  • You deal directly with The builders, the designers and engineers on your product

Products don't end at launch.

Shipping is just the beginning. The best digital products are maintained, improved and optimised over time, so they keep evolving with your users and delivering results long after go-live.

About the service

Rocket Lab provides structured, proactive support for teams that want peace of mind after launch. Whether we built your product or are stepping in to take over, we become your long-term technical partner.

From bug fixes and performance tuning to feature enhancements and infrastructure upgrades, we make sure your product stays fast, secure and aligned with your business goals.

It is ideal for scale-ups, product teams without in-house capacity, or any company that takes product quality seriously. For React Native and Flutter apps, our fixed-fee mobile app maintenance plans cover the platform work every app needs.

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What we use

Our team works with your existing stack and tools to keep everything running efficiently.

  • Logos of Sentry, UptimeRobot, LogRocket and Datadog

    Monitoring and incident response: Sentry, Datadog, LogRocket, Uptime Robot

  • Logos of Google Analytics, PostHog, Hotjar and Mixpanel

    Analytics and optimisation: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar, PostHog

  • Logos of GitHub Actions, AWS, Kubernetes and Vercel

    CI/CD and DevOps: GitHub Actions, AWS, Vercel, Docker, Kubernetes

  • Logos of React, Flutter, Node.js and NestJS

    Front end and back end: React, React Native, Flutter, Node.js, NestJS, Directus

  • Logos of Linear, Jira, Notion and Slack

    Project management: Linear, Jira, Notion, Slack

Our step-by-step process

We get up to speed fast, then keep your product healthy and improving.

  1. Technical audit and onboarding

    We assess your current product, codebase, infrastructure and tooling to get up to speed fast and identify immediate risks.

  2. Support plan setup

    We define service levels, communication channels and workflows for requests, fixes and improvements. No guesswork.

  3. Monitoring and issue response

    We set up monitoring tools, alerts and dashboards. When something goes wrong, we are already on it.

  4. Performance and UX optimisation

    We continuously find and implement ways to improve speed, reliability and user experience.

  5. Feature enhancements and iteration

    We help your product evolve by building new features, refining existing ones and supporting experiments.

  6. Roadmap and strategic guidance

    We don't just maintain, we guide. We help you plan technical upgrades, prioritise improvements and make smart long-term decisions.

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Why Rocket Lab

Support from the people who build products.

  • We care deeply about your users, your uptime and the product you have invested in.
  • We think clearly about what to fix now, what can wait and what is worth improving.
  • We own the outcome by being proactive, not waiting for tickets.
  • We move fast when something breaks, and calmly when it doesn't.
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In our clients' words

Founders and long-term partners on what it is like to build with us.

We have a long standing partnership with Rocket Lab who provide Webjet with critical strategic and development services for our front-end websites.

David GaltCEO, Webjet AU/NZ

Over the years Rocket Lab have seamlessly integrated with James Hardie in delivering a number of key projects for the business that to this day continue to be critical to the success and functionality of our operations.

Luke ChengCustomer Marketing Manager, James Hardie

When it comes to out-sourcing and partnering with a technology vendor, Rocket Lab is top of mind. Julien, Jen and the team are incredibly detailed and thorough whenever they’re engaged in a project. And, they do so at velocity.

Kim JansonHead of Design, Superloop

Rocket Lab’s ability to help define and execute our business through software in a timely fashion, has been a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to work with.

Anthony MazzeiCo-founder, Erin Living

The guys worked together very well with our internal resources and blended into our process seamlessly. We were very impressed with the level of skill from each of the engineers…

Mathew PauleGeneral Manager, Lasoo.com.au

Our business has hundreds of suppliers and thousands of customers so we needed a highly robust structure and that’s exactly what was delivered by Julien, Jen and the RL development team.

Jordan and Rhys RogersFounders, Beforeyoubuy.com.au

Julien and his team are a real pleasure to work with. They are well rounded with a solid understanding of design/user experience best practices as well as diving deep under the hood with solid web and app development capabilities.

Woj KwasiFounder, Kwasi.com

Their team delivered a site that met our expectations, and they’ve continued to assist us in refining and enhancing it over time. They are dedicated, creative, and technically skilled, helping to ensure our website looks good and functions smoothly.

Jared SmithHead of IT, Aunty Grace

  • Red Bull
  • Webjet
  • Pearson
  • James Hardie
  • CSIRO
  • NSW Police Force
  • oOh!media
  • Bras N Things
  • Superloop
  • Petbarn
  • Reapit
  • Black Dog Institute
  • South Australian Tourism Commission
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • Exetel
  • Lasoo
  • Before You Buy
  • Aunty Grace
  • IVE Group
  • Thriday
  • Independent Reserve
  • Erin Living
  • Education Services Australia
  • WebBeds
  • me&u
  • Forwood Safety

Tell us what you are building.

A 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no obligation. We will tell you if we are the right fit.