How to find someone on Fiverr
Instead of hacks have someone else do it
I began using Fiverr, I think, 13 years ago.
And I have a love/hate relationship with them, but thanks to AI, I’m able to learn much more quickly on finding and asking the right questions to get what I want out of it
My time is limited
The secret Jedi mind trick is simply asking the right question
So the response will be something you can give serious attention to.
If you have never tried outsourcing your work, its wonderful but precarious since most of the help is from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, etc.
And yet when you speak to them and you think you vibed you are ghosted.
Also, you don’t need to buy the listed price and may not want all of their services so you haggle, bargain, specify what you want.
But I want to understand from Claude.AI why this isn’t the first time that I asked them the price but they don’t want to tell me the price.
My prompt was voice to text
“ I talked to them and then they don’t respond back I mean I’m willing to pay the money i’m just saying as I like to know what I’m getting myself into and then they just don’t get back to me are they afraid or is this a common thing This is from Fiverr by the way but it happened on Upwork as well”
Claude got back to me
“Yeah, this is extremely common and there are a few things driving it:
They’re fishing for a bigger number. When you ask, “What’s your price for X?” they want to scope-creep you into a custom quote that’s higher than their listed rate. The irony is that their hesitation to quote kills the deal.
Volume game gone wrong. Guys like Moheen at $35/hr with 949 reviews are running an agency behind a personal profile.
They’re juggling dozens of inquiries. If you don’t have immediate, obvious revenue, you fall through the cracks.
They assume you’ll ghost. On Fiverr/Upwork, most people asking price questions are tire-kickers. They’ve been burned enough times that they semi-consciously deprioritize quote requests — which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy with serious buyers like you.
Timezone math. Bangladesh is 10 hours ahead of you. He’s online at 6:46 PM his time in that screenshot, but there’s a mismatch in communication rhythm that compounds the back-and-forth.
What actually works:
Lead with the deliverable and a budget anchor in your first message.
Something like: “I need X built. I’m budgeted at $Y. Are you available and is this in scope?” — eliminates all the dance steps. They respond, or they don’t, and you move on fast.
So there you have it.
Be specific. It cuts the clutter and definable goals can be measured.
Instead of relationship building, that will come after the jobs are done.
Claude.AI suggested some other ways to find some help that I never heard of before:
Toptal — pre-vetted, expensive, but you get a real engineer. Better for ongoing relationship than one-off gigs.
Gun.io — similar, US-timezone skewed
X/Twitter — post exactly what you need with a budget. Serious devs lurk there. Given your @harboreric presence you have standing to do this credibly.
Indie Hackers community — full-stack devs who understand product, not just code execution
This should help as sometimes you don’t have time to do your own thing.
Like what you see?
Support my work so I won’t start dressing in drag.
Eric
PS. Fiverr is public traded. This is one of those stocks you can easily see if they have potential. What do you think?
