"I'm going to sue you later. Please collect evidence for me."
My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
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Re: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough. Just work out what your price is and send them a new quote. Don't ever fire a client, that's just silly. Make the client say no.
According to the article: "...The customer considers that if I don't want to record the video, it's because I have something to hide and want to lie about the real time spent on his project" . Dealing with a client that tells you from the outset that they believe you are going to lie to them isn't merely an annoyance. It presents a risk to your career. This client will never be satisfied, or trust a word you say. He…
This debate is silly. Yes, obviously ridiculous clients like this are bad news and should be avoided, but yes, technically there probably is a price I would accept. Even if you're going to ruin my reputation and my career, I would still probably do the task for, say, 100 billion dollars.
Re: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but what if they demanded that you do it, personally. While wearing a French maid costume.
Then I'm no longer a contractor, and they have to hire me, put me on a payroll, etc. I doubt they want to do that. I probably would walk away from that, but my point is that if you are a contractor , then the requirement is simply that the work be done, not that you do it personally. If they're willing to pay absurd money for something you don't want to do but other people will do, subcontract.
i m certain you can put in the contact condition that a specific person died the work. imagine if i was a musician talked with composing a song for a game. the client contact to Mr because of me . they won't be happy if they find out that i sub contract it out.
Re: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
#174This is something I actually offer to my clients, and I do it for fun. I guess I was inspired by watching some of Notch's screencaps over a few days. So I capture it with RecordMyDesktop (I run xubuntu), and run through an ffmpeg script ( https://github.com/choptastic/watchmecode ) that resizes the video to be the same length as an MP3, and makes an X minute screencap montage for the client. Then it produces somethin…
Agreed, it can be a lot of fun, and it's also interesting / useful to look back at it after the project is done. Here's a video I made a couple years ago of making a simple iPhone game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
game looks fun to play. But I can't seem to find it on the AppStore. Is it listed only in the US store?
Re: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, it can be a lot of fun, and it's also interesting / useful to look back at it after the project is done. Here's a video I made a couple years ago of making a simple iPhone game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
game looks fun to play. But I can't seem to find it on the AppStore. Is it listed only in the US store?
My developer account probably expired at some point. I kinda lost interest after the makers of the original video threatened to sue me (and they lost interest after they realized the game wasn't making any money).
Maybe I'll open source it at some point, it could be a fun tutorial for people who want to learn this stuff.