AirPair

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AirPair
Company type Private
FoundedMarch 2013;12 years ago (2013-03)
FounderJonathon Kresner
Headquarters
United States
Website https://www.airpair.com

AirPair is a service and company that connects people seeking help with programming issues and individuals who can assist. AirPair is a platform that connects people who are seeking help with programming issues with individuals who can offer assistance. The service focuses on knowledge exchange rather than offering outsourcing programming tasks.. [1]

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History

AirPair launched in March 2013, with founder Jonathon Kresner, who hails from Australia, working full-time, and it soon hired three other part-time developers to work alongside him. [1] [2] Kresner had previously founded two other startups: Preparty, a social invitation and event-booking service based in Australia, and ClimbFind, an online rock-climbing community. His experience with these startups led him to establish AirPair to connect programmers with external experts for technical assistance.. [1]

In November 2013, founder Kresner reported the company had reached "Ramen profitability" in a blog post. [3] In December 2013, AirPair was accepted into the Winter 2014 Y Combinator batch. [4] [5]

In March 2014, AirPair announced it would launch partnerships with Stripe, Twilio, and other companies that had their own application programming interfaces, enabling developers to request assistance with the APIs through the AirPair platform. [6] [7]

AirPair presented at the Y Combinator Winter 2014 Demo Day on March 25, 2014, [8] and raised over $1 million within the next 48 hours. [9]

Reception

A review of AirPair by Will Lam noted that because payment was based on time rather than results, AirPair was most suitable for questions where users could expect a clear benefit. [10]

Dennis Beatty, who met AirPair founder Jonathon Kresner in March 2014, wrote in April 2014 a review of AirPair's vision of connecting people and its early business performance. [11]

AirPair has been compared with other peer-to-peer coding help sites such as Codementor and HackHands. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Miner, Zach (May 2, 2013). "Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts". Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Perez, Sarah (March 4, 2013). "Airpair Connects Startups With Expert Developers To Get Help With Code Via Online Sessions". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kresner, Jonathon (November 19, 2013). "How We Bootstrapped AirPair to Ramen Profitability". Archived from the original on March 4, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Bailey, Michael (December 2, 2013). "Aussie entrepreneur's AirPair accepted into Y Combinator". Financial Review (Australia). Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kumparak, Greg (February 4, 2014). "Trouble With Your Code? AirPair Connects You Live With Expert Programmers" . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  6. ↑ Ha, Anthony (March 3, 2014). "AirPair Expands Its Live Programming Assistance By Partnering With Stripe, Twilio, And Others". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  7. ↑ "AirPair's network of pay-per-hour API experts want to make your next integration a doddle". The Next Web. March 3, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ Lawler, Ryan; Wilhelm, Alex; Constine, Josh (March 25, 2014). "Y Combinator Winter 2014, Batch 1: Meet CareMessage, Boostable, BatteryOS, And More". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Bailey, Michael (April 10, 2014). "Aussie's AirPair raises $1m-plus after Y Combinator demo day, including from Quora co-founder". Business Review Weekly . Archived from the original on January 7, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  10. ↑ Lam, Will (February 10, 2014). "Review of Airpair: First impressions from a Rails newbie". Quantifire. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ Beatty, Dennis (April 5, 2014). "What I Learned From AirPair Founder Jonathon Kresner While in San Francisco. The journey of a thousand miles continues with one more step". Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Shu, Catherine (March 24, 2014). "One-On-One Programming Help Site Codementor Raises $600,000" . Retrieved January 16, 2015.
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