Coaching on steroids

I think what you are describing is called CodeMentor (https://codementor.com). I've recently tried mentoring people through this platform, and it was amazing, it's my favorite thing to do now.

I'd love to find more platforms like this though, more ways to find students, because I'd love doing it full time, and it's hard to find enough students to book enough mentorship sessions.

If you build a coaching platform (or find a good one) - please let me know. I'd love to be one of your first users.

Romain – could not agree more 😊! Just having someone listen and give us the space to process our thoughts out loud can help us figure out our own solutions (without any advice or mentoring needed). I know that you referred to it from a purely tech standpoint, but I've seen this day in and day our in my role as a coach to startup founders.

After being a coach to startup founders for ~3 years, over the past 6 months I've been working on a tech-enabled peer coaching platform called RunYourself (https://www.runyourself.co/). I'm not sure if it's quite what you had in mind, but it has similar principles at heart. It's not ad-hoc – you're meant to have the same partner for ~3-6 months and meet regularly with them. We put a lot of effort in the matching process and training people how to coach rather than jump in with advice.

Always willing to chat more on this topic! I'm all about democratising access to coaching and love seeing different concepts arise in this space 🙏

Maybe https://www.scalehigher.com is building something in that direction?

I definitely see the value here, because your right that pair programming is insanely valuable to a dev, whether they are a newbie dev or an establish one there is always a benefit to learning from others or trying to explain a concept.

I'm not sure how it'd work for other professions though. I don't really know if plumbers are interested in seeking out guidance from others, or if teachers are interested in learning about how other teachers are planning a session. Hard to say.

I'd guess the comments here will give you some ideas and thoughts to consider, but this ideas seems worth validating. Good luck.

Not exactly this but we are building Oxogen.io which gives founders regular opportunity to get different perspectives from both peers and expert mentors. Focus is more on product and business than tech questions but is looking to solve a similar challenge.

I was in a startup community that enables 1 on 1 discussions offline. The founder eventually got another job and ditched. I think it's just difficult to monetize this. Professional consulting is just too expensive for founder to pay for without a clear set expected outcome. But without pay, even the ones asking are not going to follow through, hence waste time for both parties.

I've thought about this myself. Mainly because I like coaching too :)

I recalled doing a bit of research and finding https://wyzant.com.

From what I read from tutors on there, it tends to be seasonal and the students are almost all in school (usually HS and college). You don't really find too many professionals seeking assistance that way.

That's a cool idea, also a very big idea. I haven't seen anything like that before, would you start with any particular niche? Like devs

In the WBE Space we have already ore than 50 indie makers from all backgrounds. You can always jump into a call with each other to get some quick support!