Your Dashboard Home

Dashboard Home is the first thing you see when you open Karmyq. It gives you a warmer shell, a calmer finite queue, and a feed of the open requests you can fill — ranked so the best-fitting asks are at the top.

Decisions you owe live in the Helping tab

The Needs your response band — the decisions you owe right now — lives at the top of the Helping tab, not on Home. Those decisions are commitment work (responding to an offer, confirming a reservation, marking an exchange done, rating a finished exchange), so they sit with the rest of your commitments rather than competing with new asks to browse. See Managing Your Commitments for the full band.

Requests you can fill

Below the band is the feed of open requests from your communities and trust network. Each card shows:

• Your relationship path — the trust path leads the card, because the important question is "how are we connected?"
• Who is asking — the colored circle is the asker's initial; it reads "Asked by {name}" so it is never an unexplained avatar.
• The ask itself — a plain title, requester, community, and humanized type label.
• The details — type, urgency, community, and any request-specific information (pickup/drop-off for a ride, and so on).
• Offer to Help — one tap sends your offer. The card confirms with a link to track it in your Helping tab.
• A quiet match signal — backend scores still rank the feed, but the card says things like "good match · 2nd-degree trust" instead of leading with a percentage or a requester Karma badge.

Tap anywhere on a card to open the full request. Only the Offer button (and inline links) keep their own action — tapping them does not also open the request. You will not see your own requests here — those appear in your Asks tab and, when someone offers, in the Needs your response band on the Helping tab.

You’ve offered to help

When you have outstanding offers — asks you've offered on that are still waiting to hear back — Dashboard Home shows a calm band near the top: "You've offered to help on N open asks. Waiting for the requester to respond." Below it is a short preview of the actual asks, each linking to its own detail page, with a View all in Helping link for the full list. The curated feed hides asks you've already offered on (so you don't re-offer), and a pending offer is awaiting the requester rather than a decision you owe — so without this band an active helper's Home would read empty even with many offers in flight. The asks are real and named, not just a count, so you can pick one up where you left off.

Someone suggested you as a helper

Sometimes a community admin or matchmaker suggests you as the helper for an open ask. When that happens, Dashboard Home shows a second calm band: "N neighbours suggested you as a helper. Accept or decline in Helping." Below it is a short preview of those asks, each linking to its detail page, with a Respond in Helping → link. Like the offered-to-help band, this is a calm preview — the actual accept/decline lives in the Needs your response band on the Helping tab, so the decision sits with your other commitment work rather than competing with new asks to browse. This is different from an offer you made: here the matchmaker proposed you, so the next move is yours.

Opening a request

Tapping anywhere on a request card opens its detail page — the canonical view of that ask. The detail page always shows the one action available to you in the ask's current state: Offer to Help (or Offer service) when you can act, "waiting for the requester" when you've already offered, "This is your ask" when it's your own, or a plain finite note (completed, cancelled, matched, or expired) when there's nothing to do. You never see an Offer button that fails when you tap it — eligibility is decided before the page renders.

Show more open requests

When you do have top matches, Dashboard Home starts curated with minScore=30 so the list stays finite and relevant. If you want the longer tail, Show more open requests re-fetches with explicit minScore=0 and renders lower-scored open asks too — an on-demand expansion, not the default firehose. Once widened, the feed closes with a quiet "That's everyone for now" note so it never trails off ambiguously.

Filtering and Provider Mode

Use the filter chips to narrow by type or urgency. If you run a service as a provider, the on-duty control lets you switch between your community feed, your provider matches, or both.

You’re caught up

When there are no direct matches for you, Dashboard Home shows one honest, calm primary message — "You're caught up" — and then a quieter secondary row, "Still want to lend a hand?", that links to your communities. It doesn't show a "No top matches" first stage or a "Show more" nudge on an empty Home; an empty curated feed only means no direct matches for you, not that there's nothing to do. Browse your communities (their weekly pulse links straight to every open ask across the community) to lend a hand.

If you have not joined any communities yet, Home uses the shared finite-state treatment and points you to Find Communities before rendering any feed.

See One Feed, Two Views for the thinking behind this.