{"id":1376,"date":"2026-02-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/2026\/02\/14\/festpreis-statt-stundensatz\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:16:13","slug":"festpreis-statt-stundensatz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/2026\/02\/14\/festpreis-statt-stundensatz\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I insist on fixed prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my first year I billed by the hour. It was a bad deal \u2014 for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>You as the client never knew where the budget would land. I as the contractor had a perverse incentive to work slower rather than faster.<\/p>\n<p>Today I work almost exclusively with fixed prices. You know before the project starts what it costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stundens\u00e4tze belohnen langsame Arbeit. Festpreise zwingen mich, pr\u00e4zise zu sein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-werkstatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pletzenauer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}