Build Your Own Fiverr Clone

How much does a Fiverr clone cost? (0:00)

If you Google how much it costs to create a Fiverr clone, you'll probably see numbers between $10,000 and $20,000 plus months of development time. I'm going to build one in the next few minutes — without coding and without a dev team. Let's do it.

Why build your own marketplace (0:12)

And remember: the interesting part here isn't building an exact Fiverr clone. It's building a niche that can actually compete. Fiverr is taking a high percentage from freelancers, and your gig is competing with millions of other ones on Fiverr. With your own platform, you control the fees, you own the community, and you can focus on a specific niche — because a focused marketplace almost always beats a generic one.

Fiverr marketplace creation (live demo) (0:34)

Okay, so let's start building our Fiverr marketplace. I'm going to go for a template in this example. I could also go for the AI option down here, but I'm going to pick a service marketplace, which is what a Fiverr-style marketplace is.

It's asking me for the name and a description. I actually have that ready, so we're going to call this one — instead of Fiverr — we're going to call it Tennis. And it is a freelance marketplace for creative professionals: designers, video editors, and copywriters. I'll add that here, and then we just wait a couple of seconds.

And we have the first draft here. As you can see, we have a hero, a category component, and a featured listings component down here. We also have a "how it works" section and an FAQ that's already kind of filled in. So that's good to begin with.

Let's just do some small adjustments. It's already pretty good — you can see we also have a contact page and an about page. For the hero here, I'm just going to upload a new image. I upload that one, and now it looks like this: "Find trusted professionals for any project." That is pretty good. Let's maybe make this bold. We can also make it stand out a little — like that. Maybe even like this. Let's try that. And let's just publish.

That is already pretty good. Let's just add the navigation. We need a link to the all-listings page, and to the about and the contact pages. We add that up here. We probably do not need the tagline there, so let's remove that one. We'll leave it like this for now. Let's see what it looks like. Okay, it looks like this. Cool.

Now let's go to the store settings and to the listing form, because here we need to adjust what the listing form should look like. We'll have multiple listing types, and I'm thinking we'll start with just these four: web design, photography, writing, and marketing. Marketing is a little bit broad, but let's add it anyway. Let's do it one by one — first one, web design. Done. Then photography. Done. Writing. Done. And marketing. Done.

Let's scroll down a little. You can see we're asking for the title, description, and price. Is there anything else we should be asking for right now? Probably not, actually. They should of course describe themselves and what they're good at, and they should be able to upload some images. We're enabling messaging. Yes. Okay, let's leave it like this for now.

Then let's try to go and make a listing. I create my account, and now you can see I can create my listing. Let's go ahead and do that. Let's make one for web design. Let's say I am a developer and I'm good in, let's say, Next.js. So: "Next.js developer/designer," something like that. "Hi, I have five-plus years of experience within web design. I'm mainly using Next.js and React. Please just contact me." Cool. Let's leave it like that.

Price — I don't know. Let's do $50 an hour. We add an image, of course. Right now I just have this one — that's an AI-generated one as you can see, but this is just as an example. Let's go with that. And I publish the listing. Cool — you can see the listing is now live. And if I go here, you can see it is live. Awesome.

That's already pretty good. Maybe we don't need this old one, so we can go ahead and remove it, so we only have these pills. If I click here on photography, you'd see all the photography listings, and so on. And of course right now there's only one — for web design. Let me go to the all-listings page, scroll down, and as you can see, we toggle this one off. Save. Let's go back to the live site and to all listings, and now you can see we just have the pills like this. This one we can probably also leave out, so let's do that too. And we also do it down here. Perfect. If I go here and refresh, you can see it looks like this now. And this is the listing. Awesome.

I just made another account, so right now I'm logged in as a buyer — because of course I can't write to myself on my own listing. This is just to show you how it works. Right now I cannot book a consultation because we haven't set up Stripe — we'll do that in a second. But I can write to the seller. If I click here, you can see it takes me to the messaging, and I can then write something. "Hi, I am interested." And then they can write each other. Right now Rasmus is writing to Rasmus, but that's because I used the same name — it's actually two different users. "When are you available?" Like that. They can message each other and figure stuff out.

One other thing I want to show you: if we go back into the backend of the marketplace, we need to set up payments. Go to the payment section and then to Stripe Connect — because we're using Stripe Connect on our marketplace. You can see here that we need to add the publishable key and the secret key from our Stripe Connect account. To begin with, you always use the test publishable key and test secret key from your test account on Stripe.

Here I am on Stripe Connect — my Stripe Connect in test mode, as you can see up here. So you go here and switch to test mode. Then down in the bottom-left corner you click on Developer, and then on Overview. You can see you have the publishable key here and the secret key here. So you basically just copy them. I start by copying the publishable key and paste that in here. Then I copy the secret key and paste it in here as well. Then I save. And then we can basically accept payments on our marketplace.

Outro (7:11)

So that is basically how easy it is to get going with your Fiverr-clone marketplace idea on Prometora. And remember: it is also possible to build other types of marketplaces on Prometora. So if you have an idea for an Airbnb clone or an Etsy clone, that's also possible to build on Prometora. Always reach out to me if you have any questions — you can also post in the comments below. If you liked this video, please subscribe or give it a thumbs up. I really hope to see you in the next video. See you. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Ciao.