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Re: Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

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Post by unwind »

The landing page is very ... thin in terms of actually communicating what it means to "connect" or be "coached".

Is this a 1:1 real-time (textual) chat? Voide chat? Another forum like Stack Overflow (which, btw, is spelled just so, not as a single word)? A video conferencing system? E-mail-based service to let "developers" answer questions that way?

In effect, it tells me too little, which causes me to skip it.

Re: Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

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Post by ab_thomas »

unwind wrote: post #3

The landing page is very ... thin in terms of actually communicating what it means to "connect" or be "coached". Is this a 1:1 real-time (textual) chat? Voide chat? Another forum like Stack Overflow (which, btw, is spelled just so, not as a single word)? A video conferencing system? E-mail-based service to let "developers" answer questions that way? In effect, it tells me too little, which causes me to skip it.

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.

Re: Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

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Post by ab_thomas »

joekinley wrote: post #6

Why should I as a developer use your service over, say, Toptal, where I can get paid for the same service? What's your USP? Where is your advantage?

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.

Re: Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

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Post by iamthepieman »

This seems like it could be useful. If I'm not getting answers from stackoverflow or my questions don't really fit within the Q&A framework of other sites then I likely have a very specific problem or concept I am trying to get a handle on.

This doesn't seem to facilitate that kind of specificity. For instance, I have a question about best practices for setting a mobile version of a desktop single page application. As specific questions they vary from, "Should I create a separate mobile site, splitting my codebase?" to, "Should I treat tablets as desktops with touch events?" or, "Can I rely on testing tools and emulators to test a mobile site or should I be testing on actual devices?"

I don't really want to search for people who claim they know css and javascript and then have to go through a vetting process to determine if they can actually help me.

Re: Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

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Post by ab_thomas »

iamthepieman wrote: post #8

This seems like it could be useful. If I'm not getting answers from stackoverflow or my questions don't really fit within the Q&A framework of other sites then I likely have a very specific problem or concept I am trying to get a handle on. This doesn't seem to facilitate that kind of specificity. For instance, I have a question about best practices for setting a mobile version of a desktop single page application. A…

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.
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