The problem: "quick look" requests that take an hour
If you are a working designer, art director, or photographer with any kind of following, your inbox is full of portfolio links. A thoughtful review — the kind that actually helps someone get hired or land clients — takes 30 to 60 minutes of focused attention. Done free, it competes directly with your billable work. Done through mentorship platforms, it often pays a fraction of your rate after the platform's cut, and the platform owns the relationship.
The DIY route is not much better: a Calendly link, a Zoom room, a payment link sent separately, and the inevitable no-show who booked a free slot and vanished. Every unpaid step between "I want feedback" and "paid" loses people. Cheddify collapses those steps into one link — this is the core case for a Calendly alternative built for paid calls.
What to sell on Cheddify
Your Cheddify page lives at your own link. Buyers pay as guests in the browser; you take the call on your phone. Formats that map naturally to portfolio review:
- 30-minute portfolio teardown. They share their portfolio link ahead of time or walk you through it live; you critique sequencing, case-study structure, and what to cut. Set a 30-minute minimum so the call is worth taking.
- Per-minute open critique hours. Toggle yourself live when you are free. Students and juniors hop on for 15 focused minutes; the meter handles billing so short calls still pay.
- Booked deep-dives — 60 minutes, prepaid, for a full portfolio-plus-positioning session before a job hunt or a pricing change.
- Paid DMs for asynchronous feedback: they send the link and one question, you reply with a voice-note-length answer on your own schedule. See how paid DMs work.
What to charge
Portfolio critique is expert feedback, and feedback niches on Cheddify commonly run $2 to $8 per minute. A sensible starting point for most reviewers is $2 to $3 per minute; working professionals with visible credits and an engaged audience tend to hold $4; senior creative directors and specialists reviewing for competitive fields can charge $6 to $7. Treat these as reference points rather than guarantees — the right rate is the one your specific audience pays without flinching, and you can adjust it any time. More on pricing your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real call
Take a 30-minute teardown at $3 per minute. The buyer pays $90, plus roughly 3 percent processing (about $2.70) on top. Cheddify's fee is 20 percent plus $2 per call: $18 + $2 = $20. You keep $70, paid out via Stripe. Three reviews on a quiet Sunday is $210 — compare that to the same three reviews done free in your DMs. Full fee breakdown on the pricing page.
The honest part
Cheddify brings you zero clients. There is no browse page and no discovery — it is a seller tool, not a marketplace. Every review you sell comes from your own audience: your Instagram, your Behance following, your design-Twitter presence, your YouTube. If people are not already asking you for feedback, claiming a link will not change that, and a mentorship marketplace is probably a better fit for now. If the requests are already arriving faster than you can answer them, Cheddify is free to claim and simply puts a fair price on what you are already being asked to do.