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You have to draw a line. If he's changing what he meant or something was mis-interpreted that's not entirely your fault so it's not entirely your time for free.

When you launch something, give him 15-30 days to find anything, that's it. Anything after 15-30 days is billable.

Make sure you have every feature clearly defined before building things. Get signoff at every step of "What are we trying to build", "How are we going to build it" via email so there's no room for misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

Customers will always be clueless, thats why they hired you. Educating them on how software works, interacts and affects things takes time, unfortunately.

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