// how it works
Here's exactly what happens when you book a Code Rescue — no surprises, no fine print. If you don't make progress, you get a full refund.
If you don't make meaningful progress in your session — full refund. No questions, no hassle. We're that confident our engineers can help you.
“Meaningful progress” means you can point to something concrete: a bug fixed, a feature working, a deploy that goes through. If you can't, we don't deserve your money.
From booking to working code — here's the whole process.
Book a 20-minute code diagnostic for just $15. You'll get a confirmation email within minutes with a link to schedule. If the diagnostic doesn't give you a clear action plan, full refund — no questions asked. Want to jump straight to hands-on help? Book the $45 full session instead.
We pair you with an engineer who knows your stack — React, Node, Python, Rails, whatever your bootcamp taught you. They've shipped production code and they've mentored before. This isn't random — it's someone who can actually help.
You hop on a video call, share your screen, and open your actual codebase — your editor, your terminal, your repo. No toy examples, no hypotheticals. You show them where you're stuck and they immediately start helping you untangle it.
This is pair programming, not a handoff. You're typing. They're explaining why that useEffect is firing twice, why your API route returns 500, or why your deploy keeps failing. By the end of the hour, you have working code AND you understand why it works.
Money-back guarantee on both · Founding customer pricing
// your engineer
Every Mergepair engineer has 5+ years of professional experience shipping production code at real companies — startups, agencies, and tech firms. They've built the exact kinds of apps bootcamps teach: full-stack web apps with auth, databases, APIs, and deployment pipelines.
More importantly, many of our engineers went through bootcamps themselves. They know what it feels like to stare at a cryptic error at 2am with no one to ask. That's why they mentor — because someone helped them once, and they want to pay it forward.
years of professional experience
of projects shipped to production
major bootcamp stacks covered
// stacks we cover
// real talk
We hear this every single time. And every single time, the project is way closer to done than you think.
Here's the reality: most capstone projects that feel “broken” are actually 70-80% complete. The foundation is there — you built the components, you set up the routes, you wrote the logic. You just hit a wall on the last 20% — and that wall feels insurmountable because you're stuck on it alone.
A senior engineer can look at your code and immediately see what you can't — because they've hit that same wall a hundred times before. What takes you three frustrated days to debug, they can help you fix in 15 minutes. That leaves 45 minutes to make real, visible progress on your project.
And if we can't make progress? Full refund. You literally have nothing to lose.
// the math
Let's put it in perspective. The diagnostic is $15 — less than lunch. (And remember — if it's not worth it, you get a full refund.)
You already invested $10,000–$20,000 to learn these skills. Without a portfolio project to show for it, that investment is sitting idle. $45 activates it.
Codementor, Wyzant, and freelance developers charge $80–$150/hour for similar help. Many of them don't even specialize in bootcamp projects.
Every week without a working project is another week of sending resumes with nothing to show. How many job applications is that costing you?
Senior engineer identifies your top issues and gives you an action plan. Upgrade to a full 1-hour session ($45) for hands-on fixing. Money-back guarantee.
$15 is less than a Chipotle bowl. And you get a senior engineer's eyes on your code.
And if it doesn't help, you get it all back.
// faq
$15 for a diagnostic. $45 for hands-on help. Money-back guarantee on both. What do you have to lose?
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