Classic. That was $5 well spent Simran!

Although I would say it's a good idea to use this site to test some ideas
and get a few samples on the go if time is of the essence, I agree that a
professional logo (an image that's recognizable and recallable in an
instant) will likely require a bit more effort and skill.

Colette


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM, simran <[email protected]> wrote:

> some of you might see the humor in this ;)
>
> here's what i got my my fiverr :) (the quality speaks for itself... but
> here it is for what it's worth :)
>
> said i want: a video with a person standing on their heads singing silicon
> bells :)
> here's the result: youtube: http://youtu.be/gmQKMc8Dnu8
>
> merry christmas :)
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 PM, simran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> if you look at it this way:
>>
>> * google search - find clipart - crop and maybe colour change - say it
>> takes 20-30 minutes
>> * 2 jobs per hour = $10 ~= 500 INR per hour
>> * 8 hours in a day = INR 4000
>> * 22 days in a month = INR 88,000
>>
>> per year that is (in indian terms); 10 lakhs 56 thousand
>>
>> That is *more than double* what most average designers (with university
>> degrees and excellent photoshop skills) get now for slogging their butts
>> off in full time jobs where they work 10 hours/day with only 1 day per week
>> off!
>>
>> I have purposely strayed away from "good design" as when you get to the
>> ones with more experience and the really brilliant ones, they demand
>> "international salaries" and they get "almost international salaries".
>>
>> Given, that when you are spending a 5ver, you are likely going to be
>> happy with some clipart (because you think you doing a google search would
>> have cost you more than that)... so "average designers" will be more than
>> happy working on the 5ver site...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dominique du Maurier 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> ** ** ** **
>>>
>>> How much does a programmer work for per hour?****
>>>
>>> Who will do this for as  little as $5?****
>>>
>>> How about I copy the code and integrate it with others.****
>>>
>>> And then launch the startup with a cashflow.****
>>>
>>> No copyright issues either.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Graphic Designers go to university or college for years to attain their
>>> skills. Not unlike a Computer Science Degree.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>  ------------------------------
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Shane Greenup
>>> *Sent:* Friday, December 09, 2011 1:08 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* Re: [SiliconBeach] super quick perl jobs****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> You can request "gigs" - So you can ask for jobs done. The field is in
>>> the right hand side column. There are some programming related ones, but of
>>> course, very simplistic. Most common ones I've seen are along the lines of
>>> "I will fix any problem you have in wordpress for $5" or stuff like that.
>>>
>>> Also, I need to get a business card finally designed, so I have decided
>>> to fire 3 or 4 different people of Fiverr to do it for me, and that way I
>>> can either pick the best one, or take the best elements from each, and then
>>> rehire the best to put them all together. Total cost $25 for a professional
>>> design?
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------
>>> http://www.ImmortalOutdoors.com
>>> http://www.SportsArbitrageGuide.com/<http://www.sportsarbitrageguide.com/>
>>> http://www.TravellersTrade.com
>>> http://www.ShaneGreenup.com <http://www.shanegreenup.com/>
>>>  <http://www.surebetbookies.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> On 9 December 2011 12:49, simran <[email protected]> wrote:****
>>>
>>> @jason: sorry to hear of your imminent doom, but perhaps i have a
>>> partner in crime now :) ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> @shane: absolutely love the logo... and what a superb way to go about
>>> things... get something done quick (like your logo) and look at maybe
>>> getting a better one done as time progresses... (although in this case, i
>>> agree with your business partner... that logo is fantastic)****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Love the fiverr sites as well... what a fantastic site... and i'm blown
>>> away by looking at what people are willing to do for a fiver :) ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> "super quick perl jobs" definitely won't be anything that cheap :) and
>>> because it's programming and very technical, and i'll needs to be built to
>>> fill a very specific need... that said, i don't anticipate any "super
>>> quick" job taking longer than a day... and over time automating some of the
>>> processes like packaging for delivery (tarballs with auto generated docs in
>>> them), invoicing etc... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> logo's as you've described are perfect for the 5ver site because the
>>> results are completely subjective... with programming, if the result of 2+2
>>> needs to come out as 4, and you print 5... saying "but i like 5 more" ain't
>>> gonna cut it... :)****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> on the fiverr site though, i can't see a place where you can say you
>>> want something specific done for $5... you can only chose from what people
>>> have put up...****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Shane Greenup <[email protected]> wrote:***
>>> *
>>>
>>> After spending hundred(s) in the past to get logos designed through
>>> Elance - taking days at a time, and regular back and forth where I tried to
>>> communicate my own poor idea of what it was that I wanted with a designer
>>> who didn't understand what I said anyway, I am not sure I will ever go back
>>> from my recent experience on Fiverr.com.
>>>
>>> I paid $5, answered 6 questions, and got a logo. It probably wasn't the
>>> best logo ever designed, but it met my specifications, took all stress off
>>> me (no trying to explain and no repeated back and forth) and did the job.
>>> The time and money saved was huge. I intended to have it redesigned when I
>>> launched the next stage of this project, but my partner loves it and won't
>>> let me have it redesigned now...
>>>
>>> Perhaps this approach is not advisable for your next multi-million
>>> reputation based business, but it was perfect for this digital product
>>> launch. You can see the logo at the top of the page:
>>> http://travellerstrade.com/
>>> - total cost $5 USD.
>>> - Effort required, less than 5 minutes in total.
>>>
>>> Fiverr is great for small outsourcable jobs.
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------
>>> http://www.ImmortalOutdoors.com
>>> http://www.SportsArbitrageGuide.com/<http://www.sportsarbitrageguide.com/>
>>> http://www.TravellersTrade.com
>>> http://www.ShaneGreenup.com <http://www.shanegreenup.com/>****
>>>
>>>
>>>  <http://www.surebetbookies.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> On 9 December 2011 11:43, Jason Brown <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>> Love it. You'll probably never buy a Ferrari off the back of it, but
>>> this kind of "small, quick, cheap" model definitely has its place, and
>>> probably some lessons that everyone can learn****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Also I really miss writing Perl... ah...[wistful look]****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Sorely tempted to write all of my next project's glue code in perl now.
>>> You've doomed me.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> J****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, simran <[email protected]> wrote:****
>>>
>>> hi all, ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> we often talk about innovating big, changing the world, disruption of
>>> the current process/model... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> however, this morning i had a dream (not quite "martin luther king"
>>> style) but an "electric sheep" style... and here's the events of part of my
>>> day today:****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * dreamt - "people were asking me to make changes to their perl scripts"
>>> ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * woke up, in the shower thought of "hey, yeah! often people ask me to
>>> make little changes, and perl was something that virtually 'powered' the
>>> internet, so there is a lot of it out there, so why not let people make
>>> slight changes to what already works for them" - not everyone is ready for
>>> a revolution... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * created a basic site (my design skills have a lot to be desired for)
>>> which reflects the "retro" style... and is very "to the point" (it's a one
>>> page site)****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * registered superQuickPerlJobs.com via dyndns.org (expensive but very
>>> reliable, have been using them for over 10 years for
>>> domain/dns/mail-forwarding etc)****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * put the site up on my ec2 server (have had a ubuntu server there for
>>> about 4+ years) that i do various experiments on****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> * sent it to a few friends and submitted it to search engines... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> bob's my uncle i thought... i'm done with this for the day... but from a
>>> few FOAF's (who got that link) i got 3 separate requests, two to modify
>>> scripts they already have and in one case, a file that needed some
>>> computation and parsing - so was busy for the next 2-3 hours again :) **
>>> **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> i doubt that my rate of getting work will be that great... but the
>>> initial feedback undoubtedly was that my FOAF's had found it very hard to
>>> get a "small job done" - of course there is odesk etc... but they found the
>>> registration process and creating a project, getting bids etc a bit too
>>> daunting... they just wanted some parsing or changes to a script they
>>> already had... they saw my site, and thought... excellent... specialised in
>>> perl, here's an email and a phone number... and sure enough, 5 minutes
>>> later, they had described the work to me without having to jump through
>>> hoops... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> to come back to the point, i wonder if there are more opportunities than
>>> most anticipate in the "specialised little jobs" ... sites like odesk etc
>>> are making more complex things possible, but not keeping "simple things
>>> simple" - and i simply borrowed from Larry Wall's philosophy... "keep
>>> simple things simple, make complex things possible"... ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> all in all, a profitable day... dare i say, a startup that was
>>> profitable in the first day (the day it went from inception to launch :)
>>> ****
>>>
>>> (can't say that with any ego, because i know there are people out that
>>> that replicate things like siri in 8 hours... "iris on android" - case in
>>> point!) ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> simran.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ps: here's the site if you're interested in looking at my early 1990's
>>> HTML skills :) http://superQuickPerlJobs.com/ ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
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