This new design startup can solve your small design tasks very swiftly

Australia-based design crowdsourcing site 99designs is rolling out another online design service by the name of Swiftly. The new service helps users solve their small design tasks quickly, something that 99designs is not specialized in doing. Swiftly also helps offer more online gigs for designers out there.

99design CTO Lachlan Donald explains the reason behind this new service:

Swiftly grew out of our awareness that many people don’t know where to turn for a quick graphic design project, either because they don’t employ in-house designers or their designers are tied up with more substantial projects. It’s exciting to have the opportunity to develop a totally new service that fulfills a real need for customers and gives freelance designers another way to make money. It’s a win-win for everyone.

Swiftly’s business model

Anyone can use the new site to get small design tasks done, such as altering logos, business cards, banner ads, marketing templates, and icons, as well as modifying photos and images. This is how Swiftly’s business model works for both customers and designers: Users upload their files, explain what modifications they want to have done, and pay a flat fee of $15. The site promises that each design task will be completed within hours and users get to review and approve the task first before Swiftly issues the payment to the designer.

Designers who make those alterations on Swiftly are chosen from the existing 99designs community. When a designer claims a task, he or she will be given an hour to finish and deliver it to the customer. Each task will earn a designer between $7 to $10, so Swiftly will be taking between 33 to 50 percent of the fees. The designer’s payment will be given via the 99designs credit account and can be cashed out once the account has more than $50.

Swiftly’s service is available 24/7. If you’re interested to be one of those designers, then you need to pay attention to Swiftly’s future announcements for when it’s looking to take more designers on board.

99designs’ progress so far

99designs also shared some new statistics today. The team has hosted 230,000 design contests so far whereby 240,000 designers from over 190 countries have uploaded 25 million designs inside the platform. On average, each contest gets 120 design submissions.

The company has made a total payout of $57.5 million to its designers. About one fifth of that payout gets delivered to designers located in the Philippines and Indonesia.