Re:Ask HN: client reporting bugs that don't exist, causing m...
by rmrfrmrf on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:59PM
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WOW. This is word for word exactly what happened to me. The worst part is that I KNEW better than to accept this guy as a client, but I was so excited to get a client and get a deposit check that I convinced myself that I could blast through the project.
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Re:Ask HN: client reporting bugs that don't exist, causing m...
by duncan_bayne on Sunday June 01, 2014 @10:10PM
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Well, if it's any consolation, if you use that as a conscious learning experience, you'll come out of it a far more effective contractor than you went in. I didn't let it discourage me, and I benefited from it in the long run.
Another suggestion: do a thorough post-mortem with each client. Go over what you did, what you learned, what you'd improve and so forth. I.e. not a retrospective of the work you did (which is also important and worth doing), but a retrospective of your business relationship with your client.