Fiverr

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Fiverr is not a good source of anything but shit and pain for linkbuilding”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2026-09-01

• “I found a developer on Fiverr who fixed my script for $20 :)”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “Fiverr started to push AI to the detriments of their freelancers, as well as a new "success score" metric, but never specifying how these metrics are calculated, making it very hard for freelancers to do something about it”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “Fiverr has had terrible management for years! They simply do not care about their freelancers (and apparently also not about their customers).”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “i go on fiverr, list "500 views for 5$" and honestly i thought id get 2-3 orders but it blew up HARD. like dozens a day then hundreds. i went from 0 to a couple thousand a month, then 5-6k/month which blew my mind back then.”

  MIXED · features · Reddit · 2025-11-30

• “then fiverr just banned the entire thing overnight. income gone instantly.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2025-11-30

• “http://fiverr.com http://fiverr.com is a scam. Don't use it.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-08-28

• “I only really use fiverr because the connects are too expensive”

  LUKEWARM · Hacker News · 2025-06-06

• “The Ai con artistery on fiverr is outrageous . I pay for a human and get canned soulless spam.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-05-22

• “I recently stopped doing presentation design on Fiverr and realized it's not something I'm truly passionate about”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2025-05-12

• “it's a better beta reader than ~85% of the people I've hired on Fiverr”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-04-12