How I quote fixed-price websites without getting burned (my scope doc, stolen from my own mistakes)
Quick intro: I build websites for small businesses in Austin. Restaurants, gyms, and a taco truck with very strong opinions about fonts. For years I quoted fixed prices and got burned on about half of them. Not because clients were evil, but because "a website" means something different to everyone. Here's the scope doc I use now. It turned my projects from loss making to boring, and boring is the dream. 1. The…