diff --git a/.tugboat/config.yml b/.tugboat/config.yml
index 2be043cd78..b8c3c127c8 100644
--- a/.tugboat/config.yml
+++ b/.tugboat/config.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ services:
         - echo "yarn --cwd ${TUGBOAT_ROOT} start-backend --config ${TUGBOAT_ROOT}/app-config.yaml --config ${TUGBOAT_ROOT}/.tugboat/tugboat.app-config.production.yaml" >> /etc/service/node/run
         - chmod +x /etc/service/node/run
       build:
+        - yarn install --frozen-lockfile
         - yarn workspace example-app build
-      update:
-        - yarn install
+      start:
+        # wget the endpoint. Will retry every 2 seconds. 30 retries = 1m for service to come up. Plenty.
+        - wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null --tries=30 --timeout=5 --retry-connrefused http://localhost:7000