Short · checked 29 September 2026
The classroom course finder that ended with a signed letter.
A marketplace for classroom IT courses, begun as a hobby project in March 2014, whose founder posted a signed farewell on its home page dated 1 February 2017.
DXpertise called itself an "IT classroom courses marketplace." Its Stompstart listing, marked Public Beta and placed in London, described an aggregation platform where developers could find the best IT training courses on the market. It was "made by developers for developers," with the aim of raising "the knowledge level of each one of us." The page was still up when it was captured in July 2019.
An undated Startup Dope profile names Fabio Cicerchia as founder and says the site had course providers in London, Bath, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, with Madrid, Rome, Paris and Berlin to follow. The model was "free for end users, commission based for providers." Cicerchia favoured classrooms, the profile said, because know-how passed directly from instructor to student lasted longer, while the quality of online courses was "often poor."
The site itself had said goodbye more than two years before that capture. A letter on the dxpertise.com home page, dated 1 February 2017 and signed "Fabio," counted 1,000 commits since 21 March 2014, the day he started "writing the first few lines of code, for fun," for what became its first version. The listing's phrase returned in the singular: "DXpertise was created by a developer for developers." A few lines on came the plainest one: "Unfortunately, our journey ends here, even though the road is still long." He thanked the partners and customers and wrote, "I look forward to meeting you again in new ways." A Wayback copy from 19 May 2017 still shows the letter.
In a review of 2019, posted on 30 December, Cicerchia listed "DXpertise postmortem !" among blog posts he had planned and not written. His blog's post list still has no post about DXpertise, and the dxpertise.com domain no longer resolves.