ab_thomas

Exactly - well said.

It's free. Learning should be free so we're counting on people offering their time.

We're well into 5 figures of unique visitors.

We're not trying to be SO. There no "documenting" feature in our roadmap, I should have said that.

Yep, we need to explain it more. No money's involved, we're not keen on reputation like SO. What would be worth helping for?

It's been proven that spending more than 45mins searching for a solution damages learning. That what developer bootcamps are based on. (I'll see if I can dig out research on it).

It can be a useful resource but not for new coders.

It's on our list : )

That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.

The 1st step is to match people up. Documentation can come later.

Thanks for your feedback. At this point mentors will have to manage their own time.

They're good ideas there's several sites out there that cater for them. We don't want to charge. What's been built is from many customer segment interviews. We'll be improving on it over time of course.

Yep, we need to explain it more. What do you mean "explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rule"?

Thanks. We'll take a look at the class and SSL is on our list!

We're a match making service and that's it - profiles and messaging like Linkedin I guess. It's up to users how they connect with each whether it's through PM, voice, video etc.

That's great! Please do add any tags you want. Maybe we should change languages to skills - What do think?

We don't want to exclude those who can't afford it or those who have no access to payment.

I completely understand why you'd think that but we're not trying to be AirPair. We're a match making service and that's it. It's up to users how they connect with each whether it's through PM, voice, video etc.

Thanks. It will attract those who spend time over genuine answers and not those gameing the SO system for points.

Power users win a mustache delivered by a founder :).

The focus of this version is on coders finding mentors and pairing partners. The USP isn't nailed down but we'll make this clearer on the landing page.

From many interviews with potential users and beta users we know Student Users need lots of ways to connect with help. Of course, we're in the early stages so the USP isn't nailed down but it's been built upon the results of the interviews. It's definitely free though, so if you want to get paid to help people that's cool this isn't a useful service for you to provide your expertise through.

It's a private messaging platform. You contact a developer or another student if you like and decide between the two of you how you facilitate a session.

I couldn't make the link clickable. I tried yesterday, waited 24 hrs and still the same issue. Thanks for this.

Thanks for signing up and we're adding that option shortly. Email me at [email protected].

It's acting as a guide and less as a teacher, which is what students need. They need to figure most of it out for themselves and have a helping hand to get them over the humps.

Can you still not sign up? Please email us with the address you use at [email protected].

Can you still not sign up? Please email us with the address you used at [email protected].

We were updating the site which may have been the problem. Email me at [email protected] if you still can't sign up.

There's plenty of developers who will happily offer their time for free. We're bring them into one space we're we can connect them with students.