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A comment on Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?.

Re:Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consist... by pknerd on Monday December 12, 2016 @06:07AM (#13157231)
I am a developer and usually writes web scrapers or automation tools most of the time beside typical web development. A couple of things I did and worked for me.

- I offer them more than what they expect. At times scraping additional info which I think is useful but they did not realize I extract that too. Sometimes they ask for the script or data, one of them and I just offer them both and they appreciate it lot. Though that script is not helpful for them and they eventually come to me but it's just increase their trust.

- It sounds silly and dangerous but often I don't ask advanced payment from clients and prefer to show off some skills, mostly it was quite helpful and they worked me on other projects as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consist... by rgzn on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:21AM (#13164945)
How did you get into doing scraping contracts? I often write web automation scripts and scrapers for gathering research data, but have never figured out a way to get contact work.
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