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by r00fus 1015 days ago
There is so much work out there that is cut & dried. It's not what you'd call software engineering stuff - more the bread & butter of consultants. But you really need to know the domain space to ensure you have those cutoffs (some of which might sound very limiting). About 3-4 times after you've deployed a specific solution for a specific vertical, you should be able to productize it (on 2nd and 3rd times through you're essentially spending extra effort to determine and test those boundaries for future implementations).

Often the goal of a cheap fixed price is to show how limiting that is so they know why you can't productize a fully customized solution.