u/Academic-Yam3478

every single time.

i'd write the html.

I'd write the CSS and then i'd just stare the js file and close the complete project to start a new one.

not because i didn't knew js existed, just because of the logic felt like a wall that I felt I won't be able to climb.

went on like for few months, whole projects with zero interactivity because i was too scared to write a single function.

one day i just opened a random tutorial[building a 3D mouse hover card animation] and typed along. didn't even understand half of it. but something clicked and i never had that paralysis again.

anyone else have one specific thing that just wouldn't click until suddenly it did?

i almost missed it. been freelancing for a while now.

Usually I skim through contracts and sign because honestly the projects feels too good to lose and I assume it's standard stuff.

this time I actually real it properly, because why not! buried in one of the section was a line, a small simple line "pre-existing materials" that is basically saying anything i bought into the project, including code I'd written years before becomes theirs.

Caught it last minute, negotiated it out. Client was wierdly defensive about it which made me more sus.

now i don't want to go forward with it. So I'm planning on to cancel the client work.

Wanted to know what you guys do? is there a middle ground that I am missing?

was going through a contract a client sent me over.everything was normal until I found this "pre-existing materials" i used in the project will be assignesd to them too.

For those who did not get it, what it say : every utility function. every reusable component. every library i've built over years. officially theirs. not just the stuff i built for them everything i brought into the project.

only caught it because i'd heard something similar happen to someone else. normally i just skim and sign. the project feels too good to lose and contracts feel like formalities.

went down after that and started reading other contracts too. honestly terrifying how standard this stuff is. net-90 payment with zero late fees. non-competes covering your "entire field of technology." revision clauses with literally no end date.

do you guys actually read these things or just vibe through?