Why has nobody proposed on my open request?
For fans waiting on offers — the honest answer about how open requests reach creators, and what to do instead.
Most likely because the right creator has not come across it yet. A request posted to Everyone is listed on the marketplace’s open requests, where creators who take that kind of work read it and choose what to propose against.
So an open request with no offers is usually not a judgement on your brief or your budget. It is a request that has not reached the right person yet.
An open request reaches the creators who are reading open requests, and no further than that. If there is one specific person you want the brief in front of, post it to them by name instead of waiting for an open request to find them.
What actually happens when you post to Everyone
- Your request is published to the marketplace’s list of open requests.
- Creators who open their own Open requests screen read it and propose against it.
- You get a notification for each offer that arrives, and the chip on the request counts them.
Which creators read it depends on who is looking at that list, so the title and the brief are what earn you offers.
What to do instead
Send it to one creator by name
Post the request with Who can see it set to One creator and pick them from the picker. It then lands in that creator’s own Direct requests inbox instead of a public list.
Tell them it is there
Send them a message saying the request is waiting in their Direct requests. It is the surest way to get it read while they are working through other orders.
Order a listed service instead
If a creator already lists something close to what you want, ordering it is the one route that needs nothing from anybody else: the order reaches them straight away. See how to order a service.
Before you conclude nobody wants it
Check these first:
Is the request actually open?
A request you created but never published is a draft, and a draft is invisible — “This request is a draft — nobody can see it yet.” Open /marketplace/requests, find it, and use Open. If posting ever reported “Your request was saved but could not be published. Please try again.”, this is what happened.
Is the deadline realistic?
Needed by is what a creator is agreeing to. 24 hours rules out anyone who is busy this week. Any time asks for up to 365 days, the longest window the platform allows.
Do the title and brief carry the work on their own?
A creator browsing open requests sees your title, your brief, the kind of deliverable, how many items and the delivery window. They do not see your budget — it is deliberately withheld so an offer is not anchored to your number. So the brief is doing all the persuading: if it is thin, there is nothing for a creator to quote against.
How you will know an offer has arrived
You get a notification for each offer, and the chip on the request counts them — Awaiting offers becomes 1 offer or 3 offers, and the button reads See offers. You do not have to watch the request to catch one.
Closing a request
Open /marketplace/requests, find the request and press Close. Nothing was charged while it was open, and nothing is charged by closing it. An accepted offer is the only thing that takes money.