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It's hard to take Fiver seriously. For example a quick search for 'Ruby Rails' and one of the top service providers lists a premium service of 'full stack deve

It's hard to take Fiver seriously. For example a quick search for 'Ruby Rails' and one of the top service providers lists a premium service of 'full stack development app' delivered in 3 days, and including a 15 minute consultation, a project plan, and audit, for ... $20.

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sgt 4y ago
Wait until Elon finds out...
- sgt 4y ago
  Funny - I was heavily upvoted. Then heavily downvoted again to 1 point. Not that I mind, but people get very emotional about Elon even here on HN.
jvanderbot 4y ago
If they have a stack set up, and just need to copy/paste 90% of it, I can see cranking out even 1 per day. And $20/day is above median wage for India, and might support a student really nicely. I would absolutely trust someone to copy/paste a stack for me, a total idiot when it comes to the client-facing 50% of the stack, as long as they plug into my APIs.
madengr 4y ago
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blowski 4y ago
In my experience, it's a loss leader designed to bleed you dry with never-ending "bug fixes" you have to pay for. 1. Put the cheapest junior they have to install and configure their default platform for you and present it. 2. You see progress, and decide spending another $20 will get you over the finish line. And people remain stuck on #2 forever. The more they spend, the more the sunk costs convince them to keep paying.
- ensignavenger 4y ago
  As long as each $20 you put in, you get $20 worth of work, it sort of makes sense... not a huge fan of it for software development or the way is is marketed as such, though.
dubcanada 4y ago
Ya fiverr tends to be more of $20 for the initial meeting, followed by a custom quote for $500 for the project. Usually that $20 is just to get you in the door (which is why it's hilariously low), very very rarely have I experienced that being the actual cost.
yreg 4y ago
The $20 quote is ofc absurd, but Fiverr can never work for professionals in rich countries.

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sgt 4y ago

Wait until Elon finds out...

sgt 4y ago
Funny - I was heavily upvoted. Then heavily downvoted again to 1 point. Not that I mind, but people get very emotional about Elon even here on HN.

jvanderbot 4y ago

If they have a stack set up, and just need to copy/paste 90% of it, I can see cranking out even 1 per day. And $20/day is above median wage for India, and might support a student really nicely. I would absolutely trust someone to copy/paste a stack for me, a total idiot when it comes to the client-facing 50% of the stack, as long as they plug into my APIs.

madengr 4y ago

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blowski 4y ago

In my experience, it's a loss leader designed to bleed you dry with never-ending "bug fixes" you have to pay for. 1. Put the cheapest junior they have to install and configure their default platform for you and present it. 2. You see progress, and decide spending another $20 will get you over the finish line. And people remain stuck on #2 forever. The more they spend, the more the sunk costs convince them to keep paying.

ensignavenger 4y ago
As long as each $20 you put in, you get $20 worth of work, it sort of makes sense... not a huge fan of it for software development or the way is is marketed as such, though.

dubcanada 4y ago

Ya fiverr tends to be more of $20 for the initial meeting, followed by a custom quote for $500 for the project. Usually that $20 is just to get you in the door (which is why it's hilariously low), very very rarely have I experienced that being the actual cost.

yreg 4y ago

The $20 quote is ofc absurd, but Fiverr can never work for professionals in rich countries.