Codementor

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SHOW HN2015

19points
7comments
#1,291of 2,565 in 2015
Top 51%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.

Performance: 0 for, 2 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Mentors find real-time developer help useful

    From 2 comments
    • It's funny, just earlier today I was thinking how useful something like this would be. Even as an experienced developer, there are times when I'd like to bounce ideas off someone…
      lojack on HN
    • Having been on CodeMentor for a few weeks now (as a mentor), I have some mixed feelings on the experience. I was hoping that I'd be talking with folks doing interesting things or…
      hashtree on HN

Objections

  • Mentors feel paid rates are too low for their time

    From 2 comments
    • It's funny, just earlier today I was thinking how useful something like this would be. Even as an experienced developer, there are times when I'd like to bounce ideas off someone…
      lojack on HN
    • Having been on CodeMentor for a few weeks now (as a mentor), I have some mixed feelings on the experience. I was hoping that I'd be talking with folks doing interesting things or…
      hashtree on HN
  • Requests are mostly homework and basic questions, not interesting work

    From 1 comment
    • Having been on CodeMentor for a few weeks now (as a mentor), I have some mixed feelings on the experience. I was hoping that I'd be talking with folks doing interesting things or…
      hashtree on HN
  • Page loads slowly due to large images

    From 2 comments
    • I'm getting 69 uncached images downloading at 33MB total size. Takes 70s for page load on https://www.codementor.io/learn-python-online. Your scaling 2550px to 788px for me -…
      pbhjpbhj on HN
    • Seems to be having load issues. Possibly related to being on the front page of HN?
      bovermyer on HN

Requests

  • Filter requests so mentors see only interesting ones

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for being a mentor on our site and thanks for the feedback! We're coming up with ways to make sure you'd only get requests that you find interesting. Stay tuned!
      weitingliu on HN
  • Add links to specific AMA questions

    From 1 comment
    • Suggestion: In AMA, add a way to link to a specific question. You could add an ID and point to the current URL with the ID appended.
      TheAceOfHearts on HN

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