# Fiverr Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/fiverr/ 9 people recommended Fiverr in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 43 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 10 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Criticized more than recommended: critics say quality varies widely and cite a 2026 exposure of private customer files; those who recommend it cite quickly hiring affordable freelancers and finding freelance work. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. ## What people warn about - Private customer files exposed publicly (7 comments in the sample): "switching the existing media library from public to authenticated breaks every existing URL across the whole platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783407)) "This is really bad, just straight up people's income, SSN and worse just right there in the search results" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772254)) "they've gutted enough of their internal processes that they literally can't restrict access to these files" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774319)) - Poor treatment of sellers and income (3 comments in the sample): "a company whose whole brand is based on hiring people for $5 turns out to not respect the workers who created value on their platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775910)) "a lot of "Top Rated" sellers, who were raking in good amounts of money saw their income fall drastically" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779400)) "taking a cut of other people's work while taking zero responsibility for even their own app's quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776115)) - Company denied or dismissed the leak (2 comments in the sample): "They patched the "non-existent" issue it seems. And totally denied it happened in the first place." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789960)) "Fiverr's response was everything was fine and there was nothing they could do about it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773112)) - Budget sellers give inconsistent quality (2 comments in the sample): "I’ve worked with dozens of budget friendly designers on Fiverr and consistently get way worse results than I’ve gotten from AI models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765646)) "I paid like $1000 for a “premium experience” to be offered 6 or so stencils like this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777131)) ## Why people recommend it - Cheap hiring for small jobs (3 comments in the sample): "You can find someone on Fiverr that’ll do a better job than this for $100." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944986)) "At the end I found a developer on Fiverr who fixed my script for $20" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350677)) "I'd rather spend $50 on Fiverr and get human generated content." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791788)) - Ready source of freelance work (3 comments in the sample): "spend your other time building skills, doing freelancing on Fiverr, Upwork" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196637)) "you can freelance as a software developer on Fiverr or something" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623379)) "Have a profile on Upwork/Fiverr/Contra." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056106)) ## What people recommend instead - [Upwork](https://hackerapproved.com/p/upwork/): 5 recommend, 2 mixed, 14 criticize ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.fiverr.com/) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Fiverr", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fiverr/ (9 recommend, 3 mixed, 43 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.