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Fiverr: Graphics, marketing, fun, and more online services for $5

Jon Dron
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By Jon Dron 12 September 2013 @ 11:33am Comments (7)
http://fiverr.com/

A marketplace for services, many of which start at $5, hence the name. Compared with long-established competitors like Amazon's Mechanical Turk this is very simple to use and easy to understand - you hire someone for a 'gig' and they do the work for you, whether it is proofreading, choosing a gift, teaching you to juggle, turning your room design into a CAD drawing, correcting your code or whatever. Mostly, you pay $5 or some multiple of $5. Being a global site, some of the prices are amazingly low. It has a simple collective approach to reputation management so, like most such sites, it is not too hard to find reliable service providers. I'm torn between concerns about the ease with which it can handle contract cheating and delight that people can distribute workload in such a simple and convenient manner. I've not come up with a personal use for it yet but can see the potential value in many different areas.

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