HackHands

HackHands
Company type	Private subsidiary
Industry	Online Education
Founded	2013 (2013)
Headquarters	Farmington, Utah, U.S.
Area served	Globally
Products	E-mentoring; Online Technical Training;
Parent	Pluralsight
Website	www.hackhands.com

HackHands (stylized as hack.hands()) is an online learning platform for computer programming and coding. Users pay to communicate with programming mentors via video calls, screen sharing, and shared text editors.¹

History

HackHands was founded by 6PS Group, a web development company,¹ in 2013.²

In 2014, HackHands founded HackPledge, an initiative to encourage industry experts to mentor and teach novice developers. The company also launched the HackSummit, a programming conference that had more than 64,000 registrants.³

On July 9, 2015, Pluralsight, an online education company, announced it had acquired HackHands.⁴

References

Ha, Anthony. "Through Its Network Of Mentors, HackHands Offers Live Help For New Programmers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
Weber, Harrison. "Pluralsight snaps up HackHands to offer budding coders real-time support". VentureBeat. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
Elahi, Amina. "Hack.summit() trumpets virtual tradeoffs, including flexible access". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
Kokalitcheva, Kia. "This company is adding on-demand help to win the online education race". Fortune. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

External links

Official website

[:0-1] Ha, Anthony. "Through Its Network Of Mentors, HackHands Offers Live Help For New Programmers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

[:1-2] Weber, Harrison. "Pluralsight snaps up HackHands to offer budding coders real-time support". VentureBeat. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

[3] Elahi, Amina. "Hack.summit() trumpets virtual tradeoffs, including flexible access". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

[4] Kokalitcheva, Kia. "This company is adding on-demand help to win the online education race". Fortune. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

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