Ask HN: My clients always lose interest towards end of projects
I am having a problem where my clients are losing interest towards the end of projects. When the agreed contract is delivered, usually very early in the amount of time agreed, I usually ask for feedback on the deliverable before sending them the invoice.
The work is not garbage - it's high quality work, fully commented, and I'm good at my job.
In 2 instances now, my client has taken a long time relative to the contract period to send back feedback (i.e. up to 2 weeks on a 3 week contract), and in two cases now the client has simply become either non-responsive or argues long-running of the contract, mainly to do with their delay in providing feedback.
I was wondering perhaps instead of sending the deliverable for feedback, I should be sending them an invoice as soon as the project is "100% complete" and allowing them to argue any touch-up points rather than leading with the assumption that the client may want touch-ups made.
Does anyone in a contracting or freelancing background have any feedback about how to deal with this issue?