Freelancers Absorb Unbilled Scope Creep on Fixed-Price Projects
A Product Hunt comment describes years of fixed-price freelance work where small client add-on requests accumulated unnoticed until the freelancer had worked dozens of unbilled hours, offered as the motivation for the poster's own scope-tracking tool. The underlying pattern -- incremental scope creep too small to individually justify renegotiation -- is a genuine and specific freelance pain point, though the post itself is a product pitch rather than independent evidence.
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