THIS is what I think.

I think you should tell us why you are asking this random question so people can understand what you want. You essentially asked: "hey guys, what do you think of puppies?" Without telling people why, you're inviting designers to a circle jerk.

I’ve been an Envato author for quite sometime, quite recently I discovered someone on Fiverr has posted a few of my Envato projects there and selling it without my knowledge.

I contacted Fiverr to have it taken down, but it soon re-appeared. I had to call them out on Twitter before they took it down again. I have very little opinion of them.

It's excellent for palming off work I can't be bothered doing. Just don't rely on it for anything mission-critical.

It's a way for folks to offshore cheap work that's often copied or of incredibly low quality.

I don't think about it at all.

My opinion on sites like this probably runs counter to a lot of the common thinking. This is also from the perspective of never having used Fiverr, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I don't think these platforms are that bad. Every industry has aspects of it that are completely commoditized, and it forces people that do want to differentiate their services to think more critically about the value their providing.

Everyone talks about value-based pricing, but the other side of that is a small business that is just getting started and may not need or want a custom logo and full brand system. They're getting proportionally less 'value' out of something like that, so should be expected to pay proportionally less. I think there is a need for $5 logos and high-end design services, and one doesn't necessarily devalue the other.

Also, a good way to learn your tools (not necessarily to learn 'design') is to do a looot of work. Doing work on these platforms probably isn't going to help you improve your critical 'design thinking', but it will definitely help you grow with managing client relationships and understanding the more tactical aspects of design.

I do think there are definitely some issues around intentionally driving down prices in order to scale and other practices like that, but I don't know if that is relevant to Fiverr at all.

Every article I see about Upwork/Fiverr/etc. basically says 'it devalues my work!!!', but I'd love to see a more nuanced argument from that perspective.

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Nice platform to get rid from daily routine. Also, $5 price is very affordable. You want to freelance there? Or what is the reason of this question?

Suckaroonie!

I don't think its good for the design industry. It allows "designers" to do quick work at a cheap price for the client. My opinion is that I don't think the work is done to a high standard (from personal experience) and it can also have an impact on our business itself. If we quote £80 for a logo, a client may just think "oh well I can just get it done for £5 on this site", resulting in us losing business for a project we would complete to a high standard.

I used Fiverr briefly when I teamed up with an SEO guy, he listed us on there to get a few gigs coming in...I didn't give it much thought as we were new and competing against highly rated providers.

I was completely shocked how much work we got, people were throwing money at us for simple WP configurations, optimisations and a little SEO keyword optimisation... the odd thing is we even got gigs for Russian websites that we could barely navigate (we're English), we done as much as we could and got a 5 star review a days later..

I stopped working with the SEO guy so it didn't develop into anything further, I'm definitely interested in listing some of my own services on Fiverr.

They obviously have a product market fit. Startup and new business don't have money for what we want them to pay and visual design is over saturated with tools like flaticon, freepik, canva, nounproject and free logo makers to make good enough design.

I think Fiverr has a function in the whole online design marketplace, but it's like going to the swap meet for something versus going to a boutique.

It's funny though -- there's a large number of solopreneurs and others who fucking SWEAR by Fiverr. These same people also want you to pay them thousands of dollars for consulting while getting design work done by someone for pennies on the dollar.

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I don't really care about it. A couple of times I've had clients that have got logos off there and the logos have been average to terrible.

Depends entirely on what you want and as a platform isn't bad.

Perhaps in the genre of design there are some issues, I've only used it for other things, one off embroidered patches, silly illustrations, etc.

Also, one thing to keep in mind is sometimes things can cost a lot more than $5 with all the add ons.