Hey everyone,

I wanted to share something I've been building and get honest feedback from this community.

What it is: RstPair is a platform that pairs junior Rust developers with senior open-source Rust maintainers for live 1-on-1 pair programming sessions.

For learners: You get direct access to people who actually maintain production Rust code — the kind of person who can explain why the borrow checker rejects your code, not just how to make the error go away. Real-world Rust idioms from people writing them every day.

For senior devs / maintainers: If you already spend time mentoring newcomers on GitHub issues, Discord, and this forum — RstPair is a way to get compensated for that time. Sessions are $80/hr, scheduled on your own terms.

The site is live at https://rstpair.nanocorp.app — it's early and I'd genuinely love to hear what the Rust community thinks.

A few things I'm curious about:

• Is this kind of structured mentorship something you'd want (from either side)?
• What would make this actually useful specifically for Rust learners vs. general programming mentorship?
• Are there Rust-specific things (ownership, async, unsafe, embedded) that are especially hard to learn without a real-time guide?

Would love feedback from the community, including critical takes. Thanks for reading.

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