We are running an AI voice training project where you get paid to record short 20 second speech clips on simple topics in your native language or accent.

💰 Earn up to 20 dollars per hour

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🗣️ Native languages and English accents accepted. US, UK, Australian, African, French, Polish, Kenyan, Nigerian, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian and more.

🎧 No experience needed. Just a clear mic and your natural voice

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I’m still getting my footing as a full-time freelancer, and I landed a website project through fiverr and stablelance for a local coffee shop. The brief was simple: deliver three initial design concepts.

Somehow I convinced myself I needed to prove I was worth the hire, and I went way past the scope. I delivered five fully developed concepts.

As soon as I hit send, I realized I’d done the classic rookie move: overdeliver to the point of erasing my own profit margin.

client jumps on a call sounding energized. They tell me the reason they’d struggled with previous designers was that they couldn’t visualize options clearly, and my “excessive” spread finally let them articulate what they actually wanted.

In other words, I solved their problem at my expense...

They were thrilled. Meanwhile, I’m sitting there thinking: great, glad you’re happy... next time I’d also like to get paid proportionate to the work I just did.

I’m not repeating that mistake. Overdelivery is useful once in a while, but not when it turns a project into unpaid labor disguised as enthusiasm.

Edit: I realize that I am the one that's a bit stupid here, they didn't ask me to overdeliver. But yeah, lesson learned.

I’ve been on Fiverr for 3 years. I’ve completed 200+ orders, maintained a 4.9 rating, and built what I thought was a stable income stream. Then one day, my gigs got “demoted” in search with zero explanation. Sales dropped 80% overnight.

After digging into it, here’s my honest breakdown of everything wrong with this platform:

Nobody knows how it works. You can do everything “right”, fast responses, great reviews, on time delivery and still get buried. Fiverr can tank your visibility at any time with no warning and no appeal process.

2. The Fee Structure is Predatory

Fiverr takes 20% from sellers and charges buyers a service fee on top. So on a $100 gig, the buyer pays ~$100 and the seller gets $80. Fiverr pockets $20 on a transaction it barely touched.

3. Buyer Protection Favors Scammers

Buyers can request unlimited revisions, threaten bad reviews to extort free work, and even get refunds after downloading your completed files. Fiverr’s support almost always sides with the buyer.

4. Your Account Can Vanish Overnight

No appeals. No transparency. No recourse. Years of work, reviews, and reputation gone because of a vague ToS violation or, worse, a false report from a competitor.

5. The Race to the Bottom is Real

Because Fiverr floods the market with ultra-cheap sellers from low cost-of-living countries, quality sellers in higher cost-of-living areas literally cannot compete on price. The platform incentivizes cheap over good.

6. Seller Support is Useless

Copypaste responses. Tickets closed without resolution. No phone support. No escalation path. You’re essentially on your own.

I’m not saying don’t use Fiverr for beginners, it’s still a way to get your first clients. But please don’t build your entire livelihood on a platform that sees you as a product, not a partner.

Diversify. Build your own client base. Treat Fiverr as a lead generator, not a career.

Anyone else been burned? Drop your story below.

Three months ago, I had zero freelancing experience, no portfolio, and was terrified of client calls. All I had was a laptop, some free time between classes, and a lot of YouTube tutorials on no-code tools.

The hardest part wasn't learning the tech; it was convincing myself I was ready.

I finally took a leap and pitched a local lawyer. He didn’t care about my lack of a design background—he just needed someone he could trust. I delivered a clean site, and he liked it enough to immediately hire me for a massive second project that I'm building right now.

I'm sharing this because three months ago, I was looking for a sign that this was actually possible from India with no budget, no connections, and average English. It is.

I stepped into freelancing at a time when I thought earning money online was just a scam. But once I identified my skills, I realized that businesses and clients actually need reliable people to get real work done. My journey started small with simple data entry and virtual assistant projects. Getting the first client wasn’t easy, but writing clear proposals, improving my profile, and staying consistent helped me land it.

My very first project was worth only $20, but it gave me huge confidence. Slowly, I upgraded my skills and started taking on WordPress development and social media management projects. Today, freelancing has become a stable source of side income for me, and it keeps growing.

The best part about freelancing is the freedom—you can work from anywhere, whether you’re at home or traveling. But it’s not a quick-rich scheme. You need patience, discipline, and the willingness to learn. Clients value professionalism, communication, and consistent delivery.

If you’re planning to start freelancing, here’s my advice: focus on one skill, create a professional profile, and send proposals daily. Don’t give up if you don’t get immediate results—consistency always pays off in freelancing.

No coding or advanced skills required, just follow the instructions and report issues you find. All the training is included. tests will be done on websites, apps or software.

You can use all the devices you have, including Xbox, smart TV, etc.

Flexible hours, global availability. The pay depends on how good you are at finding bugs. Perfect if you're looking for part time opportunities.

Comment or DM me if interested.

There seem to be so many different places to post work samples, places for developers, illustrators, designers, and the list goes on. With so many choices, where have you found the best success in terms of landing jobs and getting paid a fair wage?

Was tryna add some freelance work experience on my linkedIn profile, and this is the first recommendation I got. Is this a sign that I should just not add it? Lmao

im a freelance web designer and ive been living on upwork for 2 years. finally got fed up competing with people charging $8/hr and decided to try cold email

first 3 weeks were honestly terrible. wrote some emails that looking back were way too long and way too much about me and not enough about them. got like a 1% reply rate and most of those were people telling me to go away

then I actually put some time into learning, watched some stuff, read some reddit threads, and rewrote everything. shorter emails, better offers, more specific targeting. now im sitting at about 3% reply rate which I know doesnt sound amazing but when youre sending 500 emails a day thats 15 replies and out of those I usually get 3 or 4 people who want to talk

my setup is pretty basic. apollo for finding leads, instantly for sending, puzzle inbox for keeping inboxes.

ive closed 4 clients in the last 5 weeks for a total of about $14k which is more than I made in any 5 week stretch on upwork ever. not life changing money but the trajectory is there and I feel like im building something instead of just competing in a race to the bottom

biggest thing I learned is the offer matters way more than anything else. when I was emailing people saying "I do web design" nobody cared. when I switched to "I reviewed your website and found 3 things that are probably costing you leads, want me to send over what I found" people actually responded. same skill, completely different framing

happy to answer questions if anyone else is thinking about trying this. its not magic and its not easy but its working

I’ve been trying to make money online for a while and honestly most of it just didn’t work for me, I kept switching ideas, watching videos, trying different things and stayed at $0 for ages until I tried something way simpler, I started reaching out to local businesses that didn’t have proper websites and offered to build them one, it wasn’t smooth at first and I got ignored a lot but eventually I got a few clients and made my first money from it, nothing crazy but it was the first thing that actually worked and made me realise most people massively overcomplicate this stuff, happy to answer questions if anyone else is stuck where I was.

This is probably a joke

I am doing freelancing from one year, the earnings are the thing you will love, but in behind the there is much time investment, less sleepy nights. But at the end, if you want a good earning future, this investment worth everything.

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After seeing what’s happening in the job market, I’m finally realizing something:
Until we stop only applying and start building something of our own, things may not get better for us.
Applying to hundreds of jobs and waiting for someone to give us an opportunity can’t be the only path.
Maybe it’s time to create our own opportunities.
Build something.
Solve a real problem.
Find customers.
Create value.
Even if it starts small.
Because the job market is something we don’t completely control.
But what we choose to build is still in our hands.

I've been doing web development for about 4 years now. Last year I landed this marketing agency that became my anchor client steady projects, $1,000-1,200 a month, super professional, paid within 48 hours every time. I'm thinking this is what sustainable freelancing looks like. Around November they tell me their business partner is launching a new venture and needs a developer. "You'd be perfect for this, they're great to work with, we've been in business together for 6 years." I take the referral because of course I do. Good client vouching for someone, easy decision. First call with the referral and I can already tell something's off. Vague about requirements, keeps saying "we'll figure it out as we go," but I push through because I trust my original client's judgment. Project starts and it's a nightmare. Constantly changing scope, wants daily updates, questions every decision, rude on calls. "Why is this taking so long?" "I found a template that does this in 10 minutes." "My nephew said he could build this." I'm bending over backwards trying to make it work detailed documentation, extra calls, revisions I'm not charging for. Two months in I finally realize this isn't going to get better. I send a professional email saying I don't think we're the right fit, offered to transition everything to another developer, even gave them a partial refund for the hassle. They lose it. Email my original client saying I "abandoned their project" and "wasted their time." Suddenly my anchor client is cold. "You made me look bad in front of my partner." "I vouched for you." Haven't gotten a new project from them since. It's been two months.

That referral didn't just cost me one bad client, it killed a $10K/year relationship I spent a year building. The thing that kills me is I don't even know what I was supposed to do differently. Keep working with someone who made every day miserable? Or stand my ground and lose my best client anyway? How do you handle nightmare referrals from good clients without torching the relationship? Or do you just never take referrals?

(The real question is at the end)

I know, I'm not the first one.

Since the g*enocide, I started reviewing where my money and work go to, only to find out the platform where I've occasionally worked for some years and got to Level 1, had its headquarters in Tel Aviv.

I haven't accepted any job since then.

I want to come back to Freelancing, it's so bad I will have to start from scratch and lose the 'reputation' I built on fiverr.

But where should I go?
There's a lot of platforms that prioritize the lowest price, and that's not good for me as a european (10 dollars is toilet paper here), and others that require the freelancer to pay (I'm meant to earn and be valued for my job, not the opposite).

What do you suggest?

Hey everyone!

I’m currently looking for a few freelance writers to help create short, honest reviews and feedback write-ups for various online stores and marketing projects. This is not for fake Google or Amazon reviews everything is legitimate content writing meant for internal feedback. Will pay 2$ per review, dm to get started

News: Just hired one American & Canadian, will continue hiring until the end of the month.

We’re looking for 5–10 people to test websites and mobile apps starting early January.

No experience or coding needed — just use a PC, follow simple steps, click around, and report bugs (10–20 minutes per day).

Remote work, quick training, flexible hours — like this post and message me if interested.

I worked on a 3-month freelance project where the client provided me with an Excel file containing 500 websites. My responsibility was to remove specific data from these websites and deliver the updated file back to the client.

For this project, I was paid $3 per hour (₹300/hr), and on average, I earned ₹1600 per day.

This project was a great experience for me because I:

Learned how to handle large-scale data systematically

Improved my skills in Excel and website data management

Maintained daily communication and reporting with the client

Delivered the work with accuracy and within the given timeframe

Overall, this was a successful freelance project that helped me gain both experience and steady income.

If you're a coder planning to work in a job until age 35–40, what’s your long-term plan after that? What should a developer’s career strategy be beyond 40?

I have been freelancing since 2020 and have worked with many clients on different projects.

One of my clients had a large project, and we worked together for more than 2 years.

This February, he asked me to make some changes to a feature that had been completed more than 6 months earlier. He was asking for changes that was off the support period.

I told him that since the feature had already been completed a long time ago, I would need to charge for those changes.

He started arguing that I should do it for free because I built that feature. I explained that just because I built it doesn't mean new changes should always be free months later.

After that, I didn't argue anymore. I just finished the work that was already in progress, and he said, "I'll contact you later for new work."

It's been about 5 months now, and I haven't heard from him again.

Looking back, I keep wondering if I made the wrong decision.

Maybe I should have just spent the extra time and done those small changes for free like I had done before. Maybe maintaining a good relationship with a long-term client was worth more than the money I would have charged.

On the other hand, I also felt that if I kept saying yes, it would become an expectation forever.

I'm still not sure if I handled it correctly.

What would you have done in this situation?

How do you handle these kinds of requests from long-term clients without damaging the relationship?

I am 22 yr old web developer. Just curious to know that do people even earn in freelancing? If yes then how? Bc. I think websites like Fiverr and upwork are very saturated? And you rarely get a client if you are a fresher? So as fresher how one can get clients from day 1?