Best Brillay Offer for Developers & Designers

The best Brillay offer for developers and designers depends on the request: a text-only question ("Remix or Next.js?", "does this direction work?") fits a Paid Question, a file-based review or build fits a custom request, and inbound brand or agency interest fits Brand Collaboration Inquiries. A single Brillay page can enable all three at the same time. Paid Questions let a follower pay upfront to ask one private question, and you send one written reply on your own time — no live call or scheduling.

No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate. Brillay — Pricing

Developers and designers tend to get three different kinds of unpaid inbound: a quick question, a request for a full review or small build, and an email from a brand or founder who wants to work together. Treating all three as one generic "DM me" offer under-prices the review and over-complicates the question. Brillay separates them into three offers, so the fit depends on what's actually being asked — the same sorting problem shows up well outside tech, including how astrologers and readers split a quick chart question from a full reading.

Graphic designers held about 253,100 jobs in 2025, and self-employed workers made up 20 percent of them, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook entry for Graphic Designers (BLS OOH — Graphic Designers). Web and digital interface designers held about 132,700 jobs in 2025, of which 13 percent were self-employed, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook entry for Web Developers and Digital Designers. Self-employed graphic designers and self-employed web and digital interface designers are the population this page is about: people whose work requests arrive as a DM rather than as a ticket from an employer.

What's the difference between the three offers?

Paid Questions are one private question and one written reply; Custom Work is one defined deliverable; Brand Collaboration Inquiries collect commercial outreach in a separate brand inbox. Paid Questions and Custom Work each have their own price and reply or delivery time controls, so matching a request to the right offer avoids under-pricing a big job or over-scoping a small one.

Followers pay upfront for Paid Questions and Custom Work; Brand Collaboration Inquiries collects commercial outreach through an intake form. Brillay's pricing page states that "Brand inquiries are free" and that the 8% platform fee applies when a follower pays for work, with 5% on tips and goals, which is why a Brand Collaboration Inquiry costs a brand nothing to send and earns a creator nothing when the form is sent. Brillay's feature page for the form explains that brand inquiries go into a separate brand inbox, apart from follower messages.

Should a quick technical question be a paid question?

A quick technical question belongs in Paid Questions whenever a written answer settles it. Brillay's How It Works page explains that Paid Questions get a written reply, not a call, and a Paid Question is one typed question and one written reply (Brillay — How It Works).

Examples that fit a Paid Question: "Should I use Postgres or Mongo for this?", "Is this API design RESTful enough to ship?", "Does this button placement read as primary or secondary?"

Examples that do not fit a Paid Question: anything requiring the creator to open a file, mark up a screen, or record a walkthrough. Requests like those belong in Custom Work.

When does a request need a full custom request instead?

Use Custom Work when the follower sends files or the delivery includes more than a written reply. Brillay's Custom Work page explains that a follower can attach files along with their brief when placing an order.

A pull request review, a bug report with logs attached, a Figma teardown, or a "build me a three-page Notion tracker" request all require the follower to upload something and the creator to return more than a one-line answer. The file is the dividing line: text-in, text-out stays a Paid Question, and file-in or file-out moves to a custom request. Brillay's Custom Work page states that you set the price and delivery time and make one delivery to close the order. For a developer-specific breakdown of scoping a code review as a service, see sell a code review online; for the design-side version, see sell design feedback online.

How do you handle inbound brand or client work?

Inbound brand, agency, and client work belongs in Brand Collaboration Inquiries rather than in a DM reply. Brillay's feature page describes the form as collecting "budget, timeline, deliverables — into a separate brand inbox."

Use Brand Collaboration Inquiries when a message reads like a job lead rather than a single question: "we're hiring a contractor for a redesign," "can you build this for our team," "what's your day rate." Brillay's pricing page lists "'Work with me' brand collab inquiries" among the features included on the free plan, so collecting those leads costs a creator nothing.

Is there enough freelance demand to justify pricing DMs?

You do not need every follower to pay: give the person already asking for your time a clear outcome and a fixed price before you start. Employment of software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers is projected to grow 10 percent from 2025 to 2035, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The design half of the market is shrinking while the software half grows: employment of graphic designers is projected to decline 2 percent from 2025 to 2035, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (BLS OOH — Graphic Designers). The median annual wage for software developers was $135,980 in May 2025. For a growth baseline: total U.S. employment is projected to grow 3.5 percent from 2025 to 2035, rising from 170.3 million to 176.2 million jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections news release.

The design side of the same market pays less than software but mostly above the national median. The median annual wage for web developers was $92,650 and for web and digital interface designers $104,000 in May 2025, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (BLS OOH — Web Developers and Digital Designers). The median annual wage for graphic designers was $62,960 in May 2025, per the same U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics handbook (BLS OOH — Graphic Designers).

"Overall employment of web developers and digital designers is projected to grow 5 percent from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations."

— U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Web Developers and Digital Designers

The 5 percent 2025–2035 growth projection for web developers and digital designers is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' own published job-outlook figure for that occupation (BLS OOH — Web Developers and Digital Designers). For scale on pay across the wider field: the median annual wage for all computer and information technology occupations was $109,470 in May 2025, against $50,980 for all occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage and employment figures cited on this page describe the labor market that generates a developer's or designer's inbound DM volume rather than Brillay earnings.

What does Brillay cost compared to a freelance marketplace?

If you do not want to pay monthly just to list your work, Brillay costs $0 per month and charges 8% when a follower pays for work and 5% on tips and goals. Upwork's Help Center states that its freelancer service fee "ranges from 0% to 15% per contract," and Fiverr's Payment Terms of Service credits a seller with "Earnings equal to 80% of the purchase amount". Brillay takes commissions on your own page at your own price, with the brief collected at checkout and the work paid for before you start.

Upwork's Help Center states the freelancer service fee in its own words: "It's the fee you pay on your Upwork earnings. The fee ranges from 0% to 15% per contract" (Upwork Help Center — Learn about the Freelancer Service Fee).

"As a Seller, each Order you sell and successfully complete, credits your account with Earnings equal to 80% of the purchase amount."

— Fiverr, Payment Terms of Service

Fiverr's own Payment Terms of Service is the primary statement of the seller's 80% share, which implies a 20% seller-side commission (Fiverr — Payment Terms of Service). Fiverr also charges the buyer a service fee of 5.5% on all orders plus an additional $3.00 on orders under $100, according to the Fiverr Help Center (Fiverr Help Center — How Fiverr works for clients), whereas Brillay's pricing page lists no buyer-side fee. Upwork's 0%–15% range overlaps Brillay's 8% fee on follower-paid work, but Upwork's fee sits on a proposal-and-bidding marketplace rather than on a link a follower already has in your bio: submitting an Upwork proposal costs Connects, which Upwork sells at $0.15 each (Upwork Help Center — Understanding and using Connects).

Worked fee math on a $60 custom request, using published rates only: Brillay's 8% platform fee on a custom request is $4.80, and Stripe's published typical US domestic online-card rate of 2.9% + $0.30 adds $2.04, leaving about $53.16 in creator earnings (Brillay — Pricing and Stripe — Pricing). Brillay's pricing page defines the formula the same way: creator earnings = follower payment − platform fee − processing fee.

How to read the table below: the rows are not equivalent fee types and should not be summed or averaged across columns. Brillay's platform fee and Fiverr's 80/20 seller split are deducted from the creator's payment; Fiverr's 5.5% + $3.00 is a separate fee charged to the buyer on top of the order; Upwork's Connects and Freelancer Plus are optional costs a freelancer pays before any work is won, not a cut of earnings. Every cell carries a numbered footnote to its own primary source.

Footnotes: [1] Brillay — Pricing. [2] Upwork Help Center — What is Freelancer Plus for the 100 Connects, and Upwork — Is Upwork free? for the $19.99/month price. [3] Fiverr Help Center — Seller Plus Standard and Premium. [4] Upwork Help Center — Learn about the Freelancer Service Fee. [5] Fiverr — Payment Terms of Service. [6] Upwork Help Center — Understanding and using Connects. [7] Fiverr Help Center — How Fiverr works for clients. [8] Brillay — How It Works. Marketplace fees change; check each source before quoting a number.

Can you run more than one offer at the same time?

Yes. You can turn on the offers that fit your work: set a price and reply or delivery time for Paid Questions, Personalized Videos, and Custom Work; choose amounts for Tips and Goals; and collect unpaid leads through Brand Collaboration Inquiries.

Brillay's pricing page explains that creators set their own price for every offer format included on the free plan, and creators can enable offers together. A common configuration pairs a Paid Question with a custom request and leaves Brand Collaboration Inquiries switched on. Brillay's Custom Work page also states that a creator "can offer more than one" service.

Treat these as starting points rather than Brillay earnings benchmarks: around $20–$35 for a focused technology or design question, and $40–$150 for a clearly scoped code review, portfolio review, UX audit, or small build. Adjust from there based on how long the work takes and how specific the outcome is. Brand Collaboration Inquiries stays free to enable and free for a brand to submit. Tips and Goals can sit alongside these offers for one-off support or funding a specific project, though neither is the core decision this page covers.

Any Brillay price named on this page is a starting point — what a developer or designer actually earns depends on audience, positioning, and how clearly each offer is scoped.

How do you set this up without picking wrong?

You need no minimum audience and nothing to apply for: start with the requests followers already send you, put them behind one Brillay link, and share that link instead of turning every post into a sales pitch. Brillay's How It Works page explains that you turn on only the offers that fit you — many creators start with just Tips and Paid Questions and add Personalized Videos or Custom Work later.

Quick-opinion DMs point to a Paid Question; file-attached "build or review this" DMs point to a custom request; the first commercial message points to Brand Collaboration Inquiries, which the free plan includes at no cost. For a broader look at how developers price their own DM menu, see how developers get paid for code-review DMs; for the designer-side version, see get paid for portfolio reviews & design feedback.

Frequently asked questions

The five answers below cover what developers and designers ask most before switching a Brillay offer on: which offer to start with, whether a follower can attach a file to a Paid Question, what a Brand Collaboration Inquiry promises, what Brillay charges, and whether all three offers run at once.

Should I start with a Paid Question or a custom request?

Start with whichever matches your most common DM. If people mostly ask quick opinion questions without sending files, start with a Paid Question. Brillay's Custom Work page explains that a follower can attach files along with their brief when placing an order.

Can a follower attach a file to a Paid Question?

No. Brillay's Paid Questions feature page describes replies as a private written response, with the follower's question sent as text. Use Custom Work for a request that includes a file, screenshot, or recording.

Does Brand Collaboration Inquiries guarantee I'll land the deal?

No. Brillay's Brand Collaboration Inquiries page states that the form collects brand inquiries in a separate brand inbox. The form is included on Brillay's free plan, so a creator pays nothing to leave it enabled.

What does Brillay charge for developers and designers?

Two separate charges apply: Brillay's platform fee, which is the one set out on its pricing page, and Stripe's card processing. Stripe's typical US domestic online-card rate is 2.9% + $0.30, though the final processing amount varies, so treat it as an estimate. On a $60 service that works out to $4.80 in platform fee and $2.04 in processing, or about $53.16 in creator earnings.

Can I run all three offers at once?

Yes. Brillay's How It Works page instructs creators to "Turn on the offers that fit you" across six named formats, and creators can enable the offers that fit them together. Brillay's free plan includes "Every interaction format (you set your own prices)", so pairing a Paid Question with a custom request and leaving Brand Collaboration Inquiries switched on covers quick questions, file-based work, and commercial leads at the same time.

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