Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

http://www.airpair.com/pair-programming/our-future

by ericz • 13 years ago

82 40 13 years ago

jenkinsj• 13 years ago

I'm enamored with this service. I use google hangout to pair program all the time, but I love the idea of finding people on Github to video conference for rapid problem solving.

31reasons• 13 years ago

Great idea.

picsoung• 13 years ago

Would be very helpful in a team where most of the people are working remotely. Great job !

mioffe6• 13 years ago

For sure! We've had quite a bit of success there already.

-Maksim

joemellin• 13 years ago

Great support for me as I am learning RoR :)

derwiki• 13 years ago

Congrats on the early success. Time to spin up more dynos ;-)

mioffe6• 13 years ago

Haha, done! :)

Maksim

scottmcleod• 13 years ago

I smell a super success and acquisition

fallingmeat• 13 years ago

i think I broke it...

jkresner7• 13 years ago

We just scaled from 1-10 dynos. Hopefully fully up now cheers.

Jonathon AirPair Cofounder

huragok• 13 years ago

OAuth callback from GitHub fails :(

Permit2• 13 years ago

Are there any experts beyond: http://www.airpair.com/experts ?

I'm working on a C# extension to Visual Studio and some of the interfaces I've come across have little (or no) documentation on MSDN. I'd love to get in touch with an expert who works on Visual Studio extensions or works directly on Visual Studio at Microsoft.

Do you often find new experts? I'd love to pay for someone to help me with this particular problem.

mioffe6• 13 years ago

Definitely! We have almost 1,000 pre-screened and thoroughly vetted experts in our network already.

For C#/Visual Studio/.NET, we have some really awesome experts. Related - check out Peder Rice's post http://www.airpair.com/.net/expert-help-peder-rice

If you'd like to get one on one help with C#/Visual Studio, please fill out a request form here: www.airpair.com/find-an-expert

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Cheers,

Maksim

Permit2• 13 years ago

Thanks for the info, I'll definitely be checking everything out later tonight.

Best of luck going forward, I think you guys have built a really cool product.

do-it-good• 13 years ago

Your site is extremely slow. Maybe you need some expert help ;-)

Sounds like a good idea, the guys from techzing were trying to build something similar. I can really use a CSS expert right now to polish my web site. Any alternatives to airpair.com outhere?

mioffe6• 13 years ago

Ohh sweet! Super psyched to see us on the front page of HN.

We are looking for as many folks who love pair programming as possible. So if pair programming is your thing, please consider applying to be an expert here:

www.airpair.com/be-an-expert

Let me know if you have any questions about AirPair.

Cheers,

Maksim AirPair co-founder

astrodust• 13 years ago

What does it cost and what does it pay? It's not all that clear on the site.

Also looks like you need a favicon.

focusaurus• 13 years ago

It's set up as a marketplace where experts can have ballpark hourly rates and clients can also offer a specific rate for a given request. Then a mutually agreed upon amount (could be zero on up through top-dollar market rates) can be negotiated. As an expert you can decide "I always want $X/hour" if you like or you can do it case-by-case. Same thing as a client, you can specify in the request an amount you are offering and let experts take it or leave it.

mamcx2• 13 years ago

This is too for spanish people? Or only english?

jkresner7• 13 years ago

We have quite a few spanish speaking experts like Felipe Lima https://github.com/felipecsl

We're also in discussions with a partner in Brazil to get some Portuguese experts.

Jonathon, AirPair Cofounder

mamcx2• 13 years ago

Is possible to pick based in language? So, If I join, could help only in spanish?

barbchavez• 13 years ago

Isn't this what Plural Sight does? For 20$ a MONTH?

I've used Plural Sight videos and their supporting code download for learing C#, Design Patterns, Algorithms, Interviewing Questions, Android programming, the complete works.

(Disclaimer: I have no relation with Plural Sight or their employees. Just think their products are awesome, and let you learn at your own pace, and have everything that this pair programming site seems to offer, for a fraction of the cost.)

mioffe6• 13 years ago

Not familiar with Plural Sight, but our service connects customers with tech experts over video and screen sharing for hours at a time. The AirPair experts range from senior software engineers with specialty in certain tech (Rails, JavaScript, .NET, Oracle, etc, etc) who are also great mentors to thought leaders in their domains (e.g., core AngularJS committers).

These experts help customers ramp up on new tech and solve complex problems via pair programming and real time help.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Maksim AirPair co-founder

peteforde2• 13 years ago

This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman.

Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.

mioffe6• 13 years ago

Hi, thanks for the comment. We couldn't agree more. There's a systemic problem with STEM education that affects the entire industry.

We welcome female experts and will be doing outreach in this area. On the bright side, we've had quite a few female customers already and are happy to be contributing to righting wrongs.

-Maksim

rrouse2• 13 years ago

Are you also disappointed that there aren't any transgendered experts listed?

Diversity is great, yes, but can we please stop suggesting that there is sexism happening here?

peteforde2• 13 years ago

I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.

I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."

For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.

thenomad2• 13 years ago

Do you guys have experts in graphics coding?

I may be needing to program a bidirectional path tracer in the near future, and it'd be awesome to get up to speed by pairing with an experienced coder in that domain on that.

jkresner7• 13 years ago

We've done a request for Divshot (http://www.divshot.com/)?

Can you be more specific about which framework you need help with. We will connect you with someone who has the tech you want to work with => http://www.airpair.com/find-an-expert

thenomad2• 13 years ago

I'd be needing to use either CUDA or OptiX, working on a bidirectional path tracer at least initially: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_tracing#Bidirectional_path...

fcanela3• 13 years ago

There is any way to sign up using a simple email address instead of a Google account?

BTW: I love the idea. I am going to try it.

jkresner7• 13 years ago

Presently no, as we use google hangouts to do most of the video chat. We have plans for our enterprise clients to provide straight email sign up in the future.

fcanela3• 13 years ago

Feedback: It is necessary to set company name/description mandatory for sign up? I have no company yet and I plan to use your service for different projects.

fcanela3• 13 years ago

I have just discovered that the sign up process is a pair request too, I though that one thing was registering an account and another one asking for pair.

jkresner7• 13 years ago

To apply as an expert => http://www.airpair.com/be-an-expert

To ask for help => http://www.airpair.com/find-an-expert

lewko• 13 years ago

This looks awesome. Now I just need to wait until I get stuck.

warmfuzzykitten• 13 years ago

McAfee is tagging airpair.com as pornography inside our company firewall. Might want to fix that.

Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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