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Ask HN: Want to help build PairRoulette, ChatRoulette for pair programming?

by cap10morgan on 12/10/10, 9:49 PM with 14 comments

Tell the site what you know, and what you want to pair on. You earn cred for helping others, and this moves up in the queue to get help from people who know how to do what you're trying to do.<p>Who wants to help me build this?
  • by Skywing on 12/10/10, 9:51 PM

    That could be interesting. What if, instead of faces on the cams, it was your desktops. :P

    Also, what's to stop them from just showing their junk like on Chatroulette?

  • by cap10morgan on 12/11/10, 12:15 AM

    I've written a very tiny amount of code around this, hosted here: https://github.com/cap10morgan/pairon

    Right now it just uses the Github API to let you pair on a GH repo by putting /github/user/repo in the app's URL.

    It's a Rails 3 app.

  • by andrewtbham on 12/10/10, 11:05 PM

    have you considered a way to pay people to help you code and get paid for helping others?

    Are you asking for feature recommendations or a partner/employee type help?

  • by bcardarella on 12/10/10, 9:50 PM

    Let's do this!
  • by iwr on 12/10/10, 9:59 PM

    Prepare for obfuscated-code penises.
  • by cap10morgan on 12/10/10, 10:02 PM

    s/and this moves up/and this moves you up/