Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5. Buyers can order gigs and are required to pay for the gig in advance. Fiverr takes $1 off of the $5 fee.
Gigs range from installing WordPress on a server to reading Tarot cards to writing a romantic sonnet. Tasks are divided into categories, including Funny and Bizarre, Social Marketing, Graphics, Writing,Technology, Business, Silly Stuff and Programming.
The idea is kind of brilliant and also entertaining. While you don’t necessarily have assurance that your task will be completed to your standards, you are only shelling out $5 for the task, so it’s not a total loss if the gig falls through or isn’t done well. Fiverr will also post buyer feedback on people who perform tasks. Task performers will be given a positive feedback score, which can be seen by users who are considering hiring them for gigs.
Sounds clever!
It loads so slow now and it took me 5 minutes to create a new account. lol, hopefully they can improve this one.. and wait a minute, it appears, the option wherein you can be paid by PayPal etc.. isn’t there? Hmmm.
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The site should be called fourerr because it looks like they skim 20%. Stupid website.
What Would You Do For $5?
er~ make a website as “fiverr”,
or http://bit.ly/9UUTod
“Taking $1 of $5″ is costly for those who do the work right?
Which is why it’s so brilliant.
Exactly. That is 20% of your earnings. A dollar is not too much when taken singly. But what if a million users successfully trade their services with this? That’s already a $1,000,000, easy money. 20% is too much! That’s like stealing something in broad daylight!
I’m running to register tenspott.com right now or maybe cuplbux.com to really surround ‘em.
klondikerr.com is available!
Too late. Cuplbux.com is gone. LOL
I actually kind of like this one. Fun, has a business model, easy, etc.
Although it’s really “Fourerr” if you think about it – since they keep $1. ;)
I will recommend them a better web host for $5.
(Seriously, 3 minutes on TechCrunch’s homepage and it is crashed? The Digg effect spread to TC?)
Seriously this slowness is killing me. Perhaps they are only paying $5 for web hosting.
I’d pay for a service that archives all my bills and paperwork for me – that’d be cool!
http://zodah.com
looks like they hired a crap designer and told them to copy vimeo’s design.
Why do you write articles about sites like this? Do you HONESTLY believe that sites like this deserve time on your web site? There are so many great sites or worthy sites.
Well it probably only cost TC $5…
To be honest, I think this is the most interesting one today… and with 50 comments, other people also found it interesting (either interesting enough to comment about it, or not interesting enough, so they commented about it anyway.)
very interesting service.maybe I should try it then. :-)
the problem is no one will expect much from something that only costs $5, it’s almost like getting something for free.
would’ve been better to charge $10-15 or call it ‘under $20′ or something so people can choose
the problem is no one will expect much from something that only costs $5, it’s almost like getting something for free.
would’ve been better to charge $10-15 or call it ‘under $20′ or something so people can choose
This is an awesome idea! Too bad the site is kinda slow right now…
Amazing site, Great idea.
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Techcrunch, You need to let the founders know before you publish their company on Techcrunch, so that they can optimize their server for the extra load. It gets really frustrating.
Yep! Same thing happened to my startup in France with the “frencgh TC” :(
Unfortunately cnote.com and sawbuck.com are taken. :(
hopeless site which takes a lot of time to load. They had to get a better hosting plan before they started this marketing campaign.
I think this is a great site! People don’t think of $5 as being that much money, and are very willing to part with it to get some tasks accomplished. Interesting idea.
The service has charm to some extend, I hope they do better with the host ;) Will give them a try now.
Although I am amazed why sites like Freelancer.com for example do not get featured when they change logos, domains, introduce new features etc.
Lol, it’s like the twitter of service providing.
This is the stupidest clever idea that just might work ever!
The is running very slowly… it’s being hosted on Rackspace I guess. Is anyone else noticing Rackspace is lagging a bit lately?
But anywho, I think this is a great idea! It’s taking the Subway $5 idea and applying it to better products than the sandwiches.
I guess this guy didn’t read the fact that the site takes one dollar: I will send you $4.56 for $5.
And he’s paying for a stamp of 44 cents…d’oh.
I’d tweet a bunch of stuff for $5, that’s for sure.
I think it’s a great idea but there are significant areas of improvement, I may have to attempt a better clone.
Great – fun – clever idea! Tones of fun ideas come to my mind on what I could sell for $5.
I’m sure we’ll see all sorts of clone/similar ideas in the next folllowing month.
For $5 (approximately) I’ll show them how to scale their web application so it won’t fail-whale like it is right now.
Fun idea though!
This bad spelling domain name trend is getting out of hand. It was cute when Flickr was doing it. Now every second site either omits a vowel, or adds a consonant.
Unlesss u hve a sur+lus of regulr dmzs. It wll continuuue
I’d eat a Subway footlong for $5
TC totally just crashed the site.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Is it just me or is it beginning to sound like another dotcom bubble.