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Never take hostages: give clients control from day one

Never take hostages: give clients control from day one

Update: 2025-07-05
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Joel and Aaron explain why every project should start in the client’s own GitHub organization—even when the client has never heard of Git. They share scripts, onboarding tips, and war-stories that show how small setup shortcuts turn into big headaches later. You’ll learn a repeatable way to protect both your reputation and your client’s code base.

  • (00:00 ) - Intro & episode setup

  • (01:15 ) - Create the repo in their org

  • (02:15 ) - Quick hack versus right process

  • (03:30 ) - Project-setup technical-debt risks

  • (05:00 ) - Declaring non-negotiables to clients

  • (06:45 ) - Docs that survive “hit-by-bus” events

  • (08:00 ) - Solo-dev reputation boosters

  • (08:45 ) - Silly bit


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Never take hostages: give clients control from day one

Never take hostages: give clients control from day one

Joel Clermont and Aaron Saray