It comes down to truly figuring out the client's problem(s). And sometimes what they think is the problem is not actually the problem. What I mean by that is sometimes someone may think they need a new website. That may be the case, but when you dig deeper you may find they just want more sales. And when you dig deeper again you may find they aren't doing any marketing or running any social channels to generate traffic. So a new site doesn't really solve their problem. Here are some useful questions I often keep in my back pocket for a sales call: - What other solutions have you tried and why didn’t those work? - What is your ideal outcome for solving this problem? What’s the best case scenario? - Who is your target audience? What are their needs and preferences? - How do you measure success for your business, and how will you measure the success of this project? The important thing is to make sure their expectations are clear and that you feel confident you can deliver on those expectations. If you are not the right person for the job they will respect you more for telling them that versus trying to make it work and delivering poor results.

I want to make a bot that scans githubs for funny comments, console logs, alerts, etc because I'm sure so many funny things have been left in code that nobody knows about.

No one likes to try and answer the hard questions when in reality you should answer those first and as you said the rest (the easy stuff) doesn't matter once you solve the difficult questions. When developing I often tackle the hardest problems first. Get the big wins early. Save the easy stuff for last. If you start with the easy stuff first and then you hit the harder work it's so much easier to give up because things aren't going as smoothly.

Do you ever do the "+" trick to see what services have sold your email? For example you might have [email protected] You can put [email protected] and it will still send the emails to your main inbox. That way if you get spam email you can check which email it was sent to and see who sold your data. Works with any google or Google workspace email.