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Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Here! https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import... I had to scroll up a bit to see the heading. They couldn't figure out how to jump to the #anchor apparently no one is actually looking at the new user experience. This wouldn't happen to me. It just wouldn't. https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Im... . I would not make links like: 5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965…

I don’t see? What point is being made here?

You point out this flaw in the plan:

> You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a be full-stack web-app developer.

Privately I call it the bus factor heist. It is when you get paid or promise to do something then quickly die before having to do the work.

To avoid or at least remedy that I have some documents and some code to help the next dev migrate things. A platform might also have some feature that is hard or impossible to replicate. Say they end up using other software that only plays well with specific platforms. Ideally there would also be a way back to the custom website.

I'm not saying you are wrong but people (like myself) are already invested in the mistake.

For example: I calculate a very low delivery cost by town or neighborhood name. It's very simple as the radius doesn't involve many places and they never move or change name. Addresses in the longest village in the country has only one street and the distance ranges from 0.5 to 10km. If the customer lives there it needs to be slightly more specific.

I think on shopify this could be replaced with easyroutes[1] But woah! That thing brings a bazillion features that are not needed. It's wonderful but not mission critical. I'm not even sure if it can match the existing implementation. Is it worth $450/month?

Some things melt, some expire fast, some food stuffs are fragile. The drivers know to get rid of the expensive wedding cake first and drive slowly. Easyroutes amazingly efficient route planner is simply not needed. However accurate I cant make schedules from that.

[1] - https://www.roundtrip.ai/easyroutes/pricing

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