Dribbble is pivoting from an advertising-supported community to a revenue-sharing marketplace
These are some big changes! What do you guys think about this kind of model?
Dribbble is transforming its business model to help professional designers generate more client work by implementing a new policy that requires all transactions to occur on their platform, aiming to create a safer and more efficient marketplace for design services.
Key Takeaways
Dribbble now mandates on-platform payments to reduce risks like scams and improve search relevance for designers
The platform has introduced new advertising products like Promoted Designers and Display Ads to help designers generate leads
Platform fees range from 2-5% for clients and 0-3.5% for designers, with potential fee waivers for on-platform transactions
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Product Hunt
I haven't dug into the details to have an informed opinion but I'm generally a fan of businesses that can align incentives and for many (most?) of the designers on dribbble, they want quality job/contract opportunities.
Curious to hear @syswarren's take on this (former Head of Design at Product Hunt).
@syswarren @rrhoover agree re: incentives. Feels like this will skew the community towards a certain kind of person and a certain kind of portfolio. Not altogether a bad thing... just a different thing than what many enjoy about Dribbble.
These things are also easy to circumvent... /shrug
@syswarren @rrhoover yeah, I think the questions are:
Is this what the community wants?
Are these fees reasonable?
Does this move Dribbble to become more of a competitor with @Fiverr and similar services by both providing a marketplace but also creating a different kind of competitive space?
My sense has been that Dribbble has been falling off in recent years... leaving an opening for@Read.cv — but then they were acquired.
Gamamia
Probably old man yelling at the cloud, but I miss the early days of Dribbble so much, when there was no marketplace at all and it was all about sharing design work with your peers.
I guess I'm just sad that the old "pay for premium usage of the peers network" business model seems to be long gone, or simply not enough.
Gamamia
Btw, the backslash in here from the design community speaks by itself.