Sribu.com: Crowdsourced Designs for Just About Anything

Sribu.com was founded back in June by Ryan Gondokusumo and has quickly become one of the hottest startups around in Indonesia.

It crowdsources designs almost for anything you can think of, from logos to t-shirt designs, brochures to calendars. We talked to its founder to learn more about Sribu.

1. What is Sribu.com? How does it differ from a service like 99designs.com?

Sribu.com is a crowdsourced design website between customers and the creative community. Crowd-sourcing is a concept of using a community of people to accomplish tasks traditionally performed by an employer or contractor. Aside from designs, we also do writing-based contests (brands, taglines) which is different from 99designs.com that solely focuses on designs. We are currently in the second stage of our web development and once it is done, the difference will be even more apparent.

2. How big is your team right now?

Currently we have five people on our team, and we keep trying to be as efficient as possible. Our business model relies heavily on automation.

3. Can you give us some of your key statistics or milestones so far?

So far we have around 30 contests on our site with logo contest as the favorites. Aside from logos, we have portfolios on calendar design, T-shirts, Business cards, naming, flyers, and brochures. In total,we have 13 categories of creative jobs to offer and which can be fulfilled by our creatives. Our customer satisfaction is close to 100 percent with most users loving the designs and using our service again. Our pool of 5000 talented creatives are happy with the current development and so far we have awarded around 70 million rupiah to them.

4. You’ve won a couple of awards already. Can you tell us a little about that?