Gigs — paid work in the community
What a gig is
A gig is a paid request for work. You describe something you want made, other members offer a price to make it, you pick one, and the two of you work it out privately. Open Gigs from the Community page in the sidebar.
Gigs are free to use — there is no platform fee and nothing is taken out of what you agree. The money goes from the buyer to the person doing the work.
Post a gig
Open the Gigs tab of the Community page and use + Gig in the top bar.
A gig needs three things, and can carry a fourth:
- A title — what you want, in a line. "Design me a logo", "Build me a booking app".
- A description — the detail. What it's for, what you have in mind, anything the person taking it needs to know.
- A category — exactly one of Image, Video, Audio, Document, 3D, or App. This is what the work will be, and it's how people find your gig and how ratings are grouped.
- A target date (optional) — the day you'd like the work by. It shows on your gig's card, people can sort by it, and once the day has passed the gig leaves the Gigs list. It carries into the terms you agree, where either of you can change it.
You don't set a price when you post. People offer their own prices, and you agree a final one with whoever you pick.
Because a gig is public, its title and description are checked automatically against the Community Standards when you post it. Most gigs go up straight away. If the check flags something, the gig is saved but not shown to anyone until a person on our team has reviewed it — you'll see Thanks — this is being reviewed and will appear once it's approved., and we email you saying why. If it clearly breaks the Community Standards, nothing is posted and you're told it can't be posted.
Browse and take gigs
The Gigs tab lists only the gigs you can still take: open to offers, with no one picked yet, and not past their target date. Once the poster picks someone — or the gig is completed or cancelled, or its target date passes — it leaves the list. Each card shows the category, the poster's handle, the title, the description, how many people have responded, and the target date when the poster set one. Prices are never shown here — the number of responses is the only signal about interest. Scroll to load more.
The bar above the list narrows it, the same way the Slop and Co-op tabs do:
- Search — a word in a gig's title or description, across every open gig.
- Sort — Newest (the default), Target date (the soonest first; gigs with none come last), or Fewest responses, for gigs with the least competition.
- Filter by type — All, Productivity (Documents and Apps), or Media (Images, Videos, Audio, and 3D); picking a category reveals its types as pills.
Open a gig and offer your price plus an optional pitch explaining why you're the right person. You can revise your offer any time while the gig is still open, or take it back with Withdraw bid — it leaves the poster's list, and you can offer again later. Once the poster has picked someone, an offer can no longer be withdrawn. You can't bid on your own gig.
Propose a gig to one person
Some people say on their public profile that they're Open to gigs, with their specialty and the types of work they take. On such a profile, while signed in, use Propose a gig to send a gig to that one person instead of listing it for everyone. The form is the same as + Gig — a title, a description, a category (starting on the first type of work they take) and an optional target date — and Send proposal sends it. You'll see Proposal sent and land on the gig's page.
- A proposal is private. It never appears in the Gigs tab; only the two of you can open it. Its page says who it was proposed to.
- They hear about it. We email them (unless they've turned emails off), and it shows in the Earnings section of their Profile while it's open.
- They answer with their price. The person you proposed to opens it and places a bid, with an optional pitch, like on any gig. Once you pick their offer it's an ordinary gig — the private thread, the terms, the payment and the rating all work the same.
- Not everyone can be sent one. Propose a gig shows only on a profile that is open to gigs, and never on your own. A proposal to someone who has since turned gigs off, or where either of you has blocked the other, is refused and nothing is sent.
- It's checked like any gig. A proposal held for review reaches the other person once it has been approved.
Your gigs on your Profile
Every gig you post — public or proposed — lists under Your gigs in the Posts section of your Profile, with its type and where it stands: Open, Worker picked, In progress, Delivered, Completed, Cancelled, or Under review if a problem was reported. Open one to go to its page. The gigs you're doing the work on list in your Profile's Earnings section, with their agreed price and, once paid, how you were paid.
What each side can see about bids
Only the person who posted the gig sees the prices. Everyone else sees the response count and nothing more, so people aren't bidding against each other's numbers.
If you've bid on a gig, you see your own bid and its status — Waiting, Selected, Not selected or Withdrawn — and nothing about anyone else's. If you're the poster, you see every offer, cheapest first, each with the bidder's handle and their rating for that kind of work. A gig proposed to one person is seen by nobody but the two of you.
Pick someone
As the poster, open your gig and choose Select on the offer you want. The gig closes to new offers, the other offers are marked declined, and a private thread opens between you and the person you picked.
The private thread
Once someone is picked, the gig gets a private two-person thread that only the two of you can reach. Everything else in the community is public; this is not. Use it to settle the detail, ask questions, and hand over files — you can attach files to any message.
The thread also keeps an automatic record: whenever the terms change or the work is marked delivered, a note is added. That record is what a reviewer would read if anything is disputed later.
Agree the terms
In the thread, either of you can set the price and the target date (starting from the one the gig was posted with, if any), and both of you see changes as they happen. The price is in whole cents with a $1 minimum.
The person doing the work — and only them — chooses how they get paid:
- Cash. The buyer's card is charged directly to your account, and the money goes to your bank. Card processing fees come out of your side. This needs bank payouts set up first; if you haven't, you'll be offered the setup when you choose it.
- In-app credit. You're paid the same amount as credit on your MotherFluxer balance instead of cash. There's no processing fee, so you keep the full amount to spend on making things.
How and when money moves
Nothing is charged when you agree terms. The buyer chooses Save a card, which puts a card on file — no money moves at that point, and the work starts once it's saved.
The buyer is charged once the work is delivered, either when they approve it or automatically after the delivery window passes. MotherFluxer never holds your money in between.
Deliver the work
The person doing the work uploads the finished files in the thread and chooses Mark delivered. That starts a five-day window.
The buyer can choose Approve and pay at any point, which pays immediately. If the buyer doesn't respond, payment is released automatically once the five days are up — so going quiet doesn't strand the person who did the work.
If something goes wrong
Either side can choose Report a problem on the gig, with a written explanation of what happened. That pauses the payment and sends it to a person to review — including the automatic release, so a paused gig won't pay out while it's being looked at.
A problem report needs a real explanation, not one line. The reviewer sees the thread's record of what was agreed and when, so keeping the detail in the thread rather than elsewhere protects you.
If a card is declined, the gig stays delivered and the buyer can try another card.
Report a gig
If a gig listing shouldn't be public, open it and use Report — the flag icon beside its title — then pick a reason: Offensive, Copyright, or Spam. You need to be signed in to report a gig. You'll see Reported. Thanks for flagging this.
A gig that gathers enough reports is hidden pending a review by a person on our team, and its poster is emailed saying which Community Standards rule it falls under and how to ask for a review. Reporting a listing is separate from Report a problem, which is for the two people working on a gig together.
Rate the person you hired
Once a gig is completed and paid, the buyer rates the person who did the work from one to five, with an optional written review. Only the buyer of a finished gig can rate it, and only after payment.
You can change your rating later — posting again revises what you said rather than adding a second one.
How ratings work
Ratings are kept separately for each kind of work. Someone's score for Images is tracked apart from their score for Apps, because being good at one says nothing about being good at the other.
A rating shows up in two places:
- On a bid, showing that person's score for the kind of work in that gig specifically — so you're comparing people on what you're actually hiring for.
- On their public profile, where the Gig rating stat shows their average across every kind of work and how many ratings it's from. While they're open to gigs, their gigs section also shows every category they've been rated in, most-rated first.
Every score is shown with how many ratings it's built from. A 5.0 from one job and a 4.6 from forty are very different things, and the count is what tells you which you're looking at.
Gigs and your privacy
Gigs use the same public handle as the rest of the community — never your email or real name. A listed gig, its category, and its response count are public. A gig proposed to one person, the prices people offer, your private thread, the files you exchange, the terms you agree, and the payment detail are not. What you've earned from gigs shows only in your own Profile's Earnings section — your public profile shows how many gigs you've completed and your rating, never money.