Almost two years ago, we started recruiting hackers as tutors by saying that they could bootstrap their startups by doing so (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236188). It took us a little while to get there, but it is so awesome to see that it actually worked.
There was a lot of high fiving in the office when John told us what he was doing and how.
And, incidentally, we're still looking for more programming tutors, it's one of our most popular categories - everyone from 11 year olds to professionals looking to switch careers are asking for it: http://www.tutorspree.com/update-profile/new
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Almost two years ago, we started recruiting hackers as tutors by saying that they could bootstrap their startups by doing so (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236188). It took us a little while to get there, but it is so awesome to see that it actually worked.
There was a lot of high fiving in the office when John told us what he was doing and how.
And, incidentally, we're still looking for more programming tutors, it's one of our most popular categories - everyone from 11 year olds to professionals looking to switch careers are asking for it: http://www.tutorspree.com/update-profile/new
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Why can't I see a tutor's rates before contacting you? What if I want to compare a few of them before making a decision?
There's too much friction :-(