How do I post a request instead of buying a listed service?
For fans who want something nobody has listed — how to post a request, and what creators see.
Press Post a request at the top of /marketplace. You describe what you want, name a budget and a deadline, and choose whether one named creator sees it or the whole marketplace can. Creators answer with offers, and you accept one.
Posting a request charges nothing. Money is taken only when you accept an offer.
Post a request
Open the form
On /marketplace, press the Post a request pill beside the title. The sheet says “Describe what you want. Creators who take this kind of order will send you offers.”
Choose what you want
The pills under What you want are Digital content, Live session, Shoutout, License and Other.
Give it a title
“A short name for this request”, up to 120 characters. This is what every list of requests shows.
Write the brief
Up to 600 characters — “Outfit, setting, mood, length — the more you say, the better the offers.” Creators read this first.
Choose Needed by
24 hours, 3 days, 1 week or Any time. Choosing Any time asks for the platform’s outer edge: “No deadline — the creator has up to 365 days, the longest window the platform allows.”
You then see Request posted, with your Budget and Needed by and one of:
- “Creators who take this kind of order can send you offers. You’ll get a notification for each one.” — an open request.
- “The creator you named will see it. You’ll get a notification if they send an offer.” — a request to one creator.
Your budget is not shown to creators browsing open requests. They see the title, the brief, the kind of deliverable, how many items and the delivery window — the number stays with you, so an offer is not anchored to it. Write the brief as the thing that has to do the persuading.
Reading and accepting offers
Your request appears on the My orders tab under Offers and Active. The chip reads Awaiting offers until somebody answers, then 1 offer or 3 offers, and the sentence changes to “Creators have answered. Review their offers.”
Press See offers to read them. Accepting one creates the order: “Accepting an offer holds the payment in escrow”, and “Released to the creator only after you accept the delivery.”
Until then the amount is labelled Your budget and “Nothing is charged until you accept an offer.”
Managing a request
/marketplace/requests is My requests — “Custom requests you have sent to the marketplace.” From there you can Edit a request or Close it. A request you have not opened yet reads “This request is a draft — nobody can see it yet.”
If posting reports “Your request was saved but could not be published. Please try again.”, the request exists as a draft and nobody can see it. Try again — retrying re-publishes the same request rather than creating a second one.
If nothing arrives
Creators find open requests on their own list of open requests and propose against the ones they want, so an open request reaches whoever is looking at that list. If yours has had no offers yet, see why has nobody proposed on my open request.