Sending a Private Request (Dibs)

Give a trusted provider first right of refusal before your request goes public.

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What Is Dibs?

When you create a request on Karmyq, Karmyq can privately notify one trusted person before the request appears in the public feed. That person has a limited window to accept or decline. If they accept, you're matched directly — no public broadcast, no competition. If they decline or the window expires, your request automatically goes public.

This is called giving someone "dibs."

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Who Is Eligible?

One condition must be true for the dibs option to appear:

• There must be a trusted person with prior history — Karmyq only surfaces community members you have at least one prior completed interaction with. New people you have never worked with are never shown as dibs candidates.

For service requests, the candidate must also have an active provider profile. For all other request types (mutual aid, rides, borrows, events), any community member with prior interaction history is eligible.

If no eligible candidate is found, the dibs prompt is silently skipped and your request posts publicly as normal.

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How the Window Works

The dibs window depends on whether your request is scheduled or immediate:

• Scheduled requests: window is 20% of your lead time (from posting to scheduled date)
• ASAP / non-scheduled requests: window is 24 hours

Scheduled example:

You post	Scheduled for	Lead time	Dibs window
Monday 9am	Tuesday 9am	24 hours	~4 hours 48 min
Friday 3pm	Saturday 3pm	24 hours	~4 hours 48 min
Monday 9am	Monday 11am	2 hours	~24 minutes

The person receiving dibs sees the exact expiry time when they receive the notification.

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How to Send a Dibs Request

1. Create any request — use the + button and fill in your request details. Set a future date/time if scheduled, or leave it blank for ASAP.
2. Post the request — after you submit, Karmyq checks for eligible candidates.
3. Review the suggestion — if an eligible provider is found, a prompt appears: "Send [Name] a private heads-up before this goes public?" The prompt shows their trust tier and how many times you've worked together.
4. Confirm or skip — tap Send Dibs to notify them privately, or Skip to post publicly right away.

You can only send dibs to one provider per request. There is no retry: once a terminal outcome is reached (accepted, declined, or expired), the decision is final.

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What Happens Next

If the provider accepts:

• You are matched directly. No one else sees the request.
• The match appears in your Helping tab immediately.
• Karma works the same as any other match.

If the provider declines:

• Your request is immediately broadcast to the public feed.
• Any eligible provider in your communities can now respond.

If the window expires:

• Same as decline — your request automatically goes public when the dibs window closes.
• You do not need to do anything.

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Where to Find Dibs Activity

• Requesting side: Check the Commitments tab. A request awaiting a dibs response shows a "Waiting for response" badge with the expiry countdown.
• Provider side: Dibs notifications arrive as a push notification (if enabled) and appear in the amber provider notification bell. See Using Provider Mode for how providers respond.

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Tips

• Schedule your request as far in advance as possible to give the provider a meaningful window.
• If you often work with the same provider, dibs is a lightweight way to give them first pick without going outside the platform.
• If the provider you have in mind is not suggested, it usually means you have no prior completed interactions with them yet — complete a request together first.