I tested out Fiverr by hiring 3 people to do simple T-shirt designs for $10-$15 each. Everything I got back was either stolen from somewhere else, extremely poor quality, or didn't fit my request at all.
I'm sure there are great people on Fiverr, but you have to do a lot of searching or get really lucky.
Upwork costs more, but I think the increase in quality and communication ability more than offsets the price.
Fiverr is hit and miss, yes. It doesn't really pay if you have a single job. It pays if you anticipate needing 20, and can spend some time firing off jobs to multiple people until you find someone you like.
I've had people turn down jobs for idiotic reasons instead of just quoting me more, even though I was pretty much begging them to take my money.
But once you find good people there, it works very well.
Even with just 3 people at $10-15 each, you could sink more money into Fiverr and come out with a better logo than the predominately flat-UI only designs provided. However, Logo Pizza still has some (IMHO) great ones for sale
Just wondering - how were you able to tell the idea was stolen from somewhere else? Simple reverse-image searching, or did you have a better procedure?
That's not a great strategy to just continue to pump $15 into fiverr hoping to eventually get something good. Does that happen when you get to $500 or $5000. You don't know when you start so you could just waste your money.
But, for rapid development of prototype, or early stage products, I could see a few $15 injections going a much farther way than abandoning a project and having dropped $299 or even more into a 99Designs (or 'higher-end') logo[0].
I would always double back and get a more professional looking design that is also coherent with the Web App look & feel or product page look & feel.
> Even with just 3 people at $10-15 each, you could sink more money into Fiverr and come out with a better logo than the predominately flat-UI only designs provided. However, Logo Pizza still has some (IMHO) great ones for sale
Maybe. But like I said, you'd have to do a TON of filtering to find someone good or get extremely lucky. Fiverr is flooded with people who only do the bare minimum to fill the request, then they'll pester you endlessly until you accept it and give them a 5 star rating.
Either that or you'll get tired of having to request countless revisions because they can't understand English and keep giving you work that's nothing like what you requested.
> Just wondering - how were you able to tell the idea was stolen from somewhere else? Simple reverse-image searching, or did you have a better procedure?
I just did exactly what I figured they would do: Googled some terms from my request and looked through the images that came up. Didn't have to look very far.
I'm sure there are great people on Fiverr, but you have to do a lot of searching or get really lucky.
Upwork costs more, but I think the increase in quality and communication ability more than offsets the price.