Helping Others
Fulfilling requests is the heart of Karmyq. When you help a neighbor, you earn karma and build trust.
Helping Others
Fulfilling requests is the heart of Karmyq. When you help a neighbor, you earn karma and build trust.
Finding Requests
The Community Feed — Your main feed shows open requests, sorted by your preferences and trust connections.
Your Preferences — Set which request types you're interested in and the feed prioritizes those.
The Curated Feed — Surfaces requests that match your skills, location, and past activity.
Two places, one feed — You'll see the same canonical request cards on your Dashboard Home and on each community's Home tab. The "Needs your response" band — decisions you owe (offers to accept, exchanges to mark done, completed exchanges to rate) — lives on the Helping tab, not in either feed, so browsing asks stays separate from acting on commitments. A community's tab adds community texture below the requests — a "this week" activity summary (exchanges completed, new members, recent helpers) and the occasional story of a neighbour's first exchange. Either way, each card shows the specifics of the ask — a ride's pickup and dropoff, a move's floors, a tech request's device — so you know what you're committing to before you offer.
The former standalone request feed now redirects to Dashboard Home, so the live browsing surfaces are Dashboard Home, Community Home, and the community open-asks view reached from the weekly pulse.
Opening a Request
A community's open-asks view (reached from its weekly pulse) lists every open ask across the community — including your own and ones you've already offered on, so the count is always reachable. Those cards don't offer inline; opening a card is the action path. Tapping one opens the request's detail page, which shows the ask and the single action available to you: Offer to Help (or Offer service for a service request) when you're eligible, "waiting for the requester" when you've already offered, "This is your ask" for your own, or a finite note when the ask is completed, cancelled, matched, or expired. Eligibility is decided server-side before the page renders, so you never tap an Offer button that fails.
Accepting a Request
- Click on a request to open its detail page and see the full ask
- Check the description, location, timing, and effort involved
- Click Offer to Help if you can help
- Your offer goes to the requester to accept; track it in the Helping tab
During the Help
Coordinate via Karmyq messages or however you've agreed. Be on time. If something comes up and you can't follow through, let them know early and cancel the acceptance so someone else can step in.
Your reliability is part of your reputation.
Completing the Request
After the help is done:
- The requester marks it as Fulfilled
- Karma transfers from their balance to yours
- Your trust score is updated
What Makes a Good Helper
- Read the full request before accepting — know what you're agreeing to
- Don't over-commit — help fewer people well than accept everything and complete nothing
- Communicate — if anything changes, tell the requester
- Show up — reliability is your most important reputation factor