AmberShah

Okay, I swear I am not new to this but it gets me every time.

1. Client gives requirements for software, we quote a price (hourly, not fixed price) to complete it.

2. Client comes back with requirements that are not in scope (were listed nowhere nor mentioned anytime earlier) and only thought they would be done because ... well, he needs/wants them and assumed we'd know that because they are so important.

I know we are in the right, both contractually and ethically, but that all matters little if you have a really pissed off client. Okay, so what are your tips for dealing with this situation?

The best combat may be to just bloat your estimates - like A LOT - but technically we already do this just to handle give within KNOWN scope so this would be even more. Plus it's not always an option when other people are estimating/trying to be competitive. And I'm dealing with a situation now where he'd pretty much blow past any reasonable buffer anyways.

Anyways, maybe it's just always a sucky situation but I'd appreciate any tips/tricks/advice/support/encouragement my fellow HNers can share.

Thanks!

I want to be able to post lists of links that share a common theme. Like "how to become a better writer" or "essentials to starting a business" or stuff like that. It would be like Amazon's Listmania functionality, except it would work for any link, not just Amazon products.

It doesn't seem like Delicious will work for this because they only have tags, not lists. Google bookmarks does have public lists and I like their interface, but it looks like I can only share links to individual lists, not a link to main page, showing all my lists.

Like I said, I should be able to have a static link like bookmarkingsite.com/profile/amber to point people to that shows all my lists. Viewers should definitely not have to sign in to the site in order to view my lists or visit the sites.

Please tell me this exists already.

Thanks!

I'm looking for a service that will notify me via email when an author I like has a new book out. Ideally this would be hooked into Amazon since I get all my books through there but I don't think they have this. Right now I accomplish this by continually polling Amazon's author pages or by signing up to the individual author's email newsletters.

If this doesn't already exist, any idea where I might get the data to build something simple? Some sort of publisher/bookseller data dump, or, even better, API service... I doubt Amazon would appreciate me scraping their site for the info.

Yay, I'm going to Startup School!

I do have a toddler who doesn't exactly sleep without mama yet. (And I'm not sure how well I can sleep without him either) Plus the guilt that comes with leaving him behind. Anyways...

I'm thinking about having my husband come with me to CA and keep him in the hotel or do something fun around town while I attend the Startup School. That way I'd only be away from him during the day (like work) instead of 2 nights. To be clear, he won't actually be attending the Startup School event with me.

1) How crazy is this idea? On a scale of 1-10.

2) Is there anything fun for kids to do in that area? I couldn't find anything online...

3) Any other "attachment parenting" mamas (or dadas) going? How do you deal?