Freelance development - Topics

My sprint estimate was off by 60 percent and a fixed-price contract made me eat the loss Writing tests and documentation doubles delivery time on a development contract and nobody wants to pay for it Accessibility and compliance work as an underserved freelance gap Estimating a feature is easy until you inherit someone else's undocumented codebase Taking over a legacy codebase needs an audit before anyone promises a timeline Pricing a website rebuild when you cannot see the old codebase yet How many months of free bug fixing belong in a development contract? Should deployment credentials and server access go to the client at project end? Repository ownership after the invoice clears is the question every development contract should answer The skill mix that separates a junior from a senior freelance developer A client wants to hire my subcontractor directly right after the project wraps Clients treat a bug fix two years later as part of the original scope How do I scope a paid discovery phase before quoting a build I cannot yet estimate? Technical debt the client's own team created still gets blamed on the contractor Rewriting someone else's spaghetti costs more than building fresh and is harder to sell What does a proper technical handover include besides a README and a zip file? Third-party API costs and hosting bills are usually missing from the development quote