Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer

Posted by burtonator on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I need the ability to hire people with specific expertise for an hour or two at a time.

Say I'm stuck on a problem with a specific tool or programming language. It would just be nice to pay $50-100 for 1-2 hours to hire someone who's an expert in a specific tool to help out.

Right now I'm stuck on a React but and have spent 2-3 days working on it. I think an expert could have resolved it in an hour or so.

Are there any services for this?

I've found code review services but this isn't really what I'm looking for.

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Re:Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer by tedyoung on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:57PM (#21896266)

CodeMentor.io has these services and there's also https://mentorcruise.com, which isn't quite on-call, though. There are other code mentoring services around, too.

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Re:Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer by brudgers on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:06PM (#21900042)

Basically you're under-capitalized if the problem is important or the problem isn't important. $50-100 for one to two hours probably won't get you an expert. A consultant can't make a living on jobs like that. They need better clients to stay in business.

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Re:Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer by thrwaway69 on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:13PM (#21896580)

pluralsite and upwork comes to mind.

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Re:Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer by bubba1236 on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:02PM (#21896541)

what are you stuck on?

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