I do mentoring for managers and primarily get all of my signups from here or twitter when I mention the program in response to a specific thread / topic. At this point, I wouldn’t likely “list” myself because I’m able to fill up my calendar in full without any outside help. I do one 45 minute session each business day, and I’m usually booked up a few weeks in advance.

I’m sharing this not to discourage you, but highlight a potential downside where the quality of the mentor (someone who has a lot of practice mentoring strangers) might not lean in to a directory listing. I might be totally wrong about this though, so take it with a grain of salt.

One additional recommendation is to require mentors to use calendly or some scheduling software that people can use for scheduling a session. It keeps the process moving really efficiently and services like calendly let me blend my work schedule with my mentoring schedule seemlessly.

Good luck either way! Hope it’s a smashing success.

A lot of people are significantly interested in this. Just look at the responses this person’s mentoring threads get on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shehackspurple

One thing though. There seems to be some internet shyness ppl have in getting the ball rolling on these kinds of mentoring projects. Would try to plan to deal with that fear of either party reaching out.

I offer private mentoring in full-stack development and more on a regular basis. I believe most mentoring relationships start with the people around you, at least mine did. I'm not sure how well a directory like this would convert for the individual mentors, but I think it's a great idea to try out.

There are few people who do this already. You can collaborate with them. Have you checked out:

www.outofofficehours.com

www.twoleaps.com