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This all sounds very appealing on the consultant side but I am not very convinced on the buyer side. The argument that with hourly you can get rid of consultant
by mrbombastic 2y ago
This all sounds very appealing on the consultant side but I am not very convinced on the buyer side. The argument that with hourly you can get rid of consultants faster might work on people with medium to large budgets but fixed pricing has the guarantee that at least at the end I have X or I don’t have to pay. People with small budgets often don’t even have the money to burn testing out a consultant with nothing to show for it.
- mckn1ght 2y agoI don’t know how it’s typically done but if I’m taking a fixed cost project as a consultant I’d ask for some portion up front. If you can’t even put up a portion or pay for the first few hours then how are you gonna pay for the actual project? If (not when) it starts making money? Might as well look for a “cofounder engineer” willing to work for equity.