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Similar shit happened to me. You know what happened a week after he sent me his paragraph (yesterday) ? Guy went on another vacation today and asked me to push his new website to production (wtf) last night "so we can get it done before I leave :)"
This shit was not agreed.
I sent him a paragraph of things that were not ready for production yet and he was like "hm ok well can we just make that stuff 'invisible' and publish anyway? :)"
Jesus FUCK -
@devpit
"Sure, that'll be $COST for altering the requirements after the project's start, and you sign this that says I am not responsible for support, as this goes against my explicit objection. If you disagree, you're in breach of our original agreement, and you can find yourself a new developer." -
@bahua agreed.
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@bahua Amen.
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Lessons learned i would say, getting feedback and having time to pickup that feedback is part of the work that needs to be done as part of delivering, i would suggest have it in a written agreement that feedback must be given in a timely matter while there is still time a head to pick up that feedback, if a client does not meet that condition it is not your problem, that way you enforce the client to take responsibility, instead of going on vacation :)
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@p0s1x yeah, it never occurred to me to make the feedback part of the contract. It's in the client's best interest to give feedback as soon as possible, so I assumed he wouldn't forget.
😎 = me, 💩 = client
💩: "I must emphasize that I'm on a tight schedule. I need this done in 2 weeks."
😎: I cut some features and take the job.
As agreed, I send a progress report at the end of the week to get feedback.
💩: *nothing*
😎: He must be busy... I'll call him if he doesn't reply in a few days.
💩: *doesn't answer call*
😎: Time running out, still no feedback, I assume everything is fine and finish it a day before the deadline. Suddenly:
💩: "Hi, how's the project going?"
😎: "...good... WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???"
💩: "Oh, I went on a quick vacation"
😎: *wants to die a quick and painless death*
"There's only like a day left..."
💩: "Right... Soo, here's the feedback you asked for"
*dumps 4 paragraphs of stupid nitpicking on me (rants following)*
😎: *wants client to die a slow and painful death*
rant