[1][2] Kresner had previously founded two other startups: Preparty, a social invitation and event-booking service based in Australia, and ClimbFind, an online rock-climbing community that reached a million users.
Kresner was inspired to work on AirPair because he saw the need for outside expert assistance with programming issues arise regularly at these startups.
[1] In November 2013, founder Kresner describes the company's initial success at bootstrapping itself to "Ramen profitability" in a blog post.
[6][7] AirPair presented at the Y Combinator Winter 2014 Demo Day on March 25, 2014,[8] and successfully raised over $1 million within the next 48 hours.
[9] A review of AirPair by Will Lam stressed that because payment was based on time rather than results, it was important to use it for clearly thought-out questions where one had high confidence that the session would help.