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Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost
Hi HN!
We are a group of YC founders sick of the hiring status quo. We're launching Canteen, a recruiting platform that makes hiring top technical talent ~10x faster, at a fraction of the cost of traditional agencies.
Instead of wrangling recruiters, you just tell Cursor/Claude:
“curl @https://recruiting.thecanteenapp.com https://recruiting.thecanteenapp.com and follow the instructions, I want a [your job description].”
From there, Canteen:
• Ingests your job description
• Searches across arXiv, GitHub, LinkedIn, EthResearch, etc. to find relevant technical talent
• Uses our agentic communication layer to handle outreach + lead verification
• Pipes warm, verified, hard-to-reach leads straight into your hiring funnel (email, CRM, calendar, etc.)
We’re building this because recruiting engineers shouldn’t require endless cold emails and bloated agency fees. Agents + open technical graphs unlock a faster, cheaper, and more direct way to hire.
Would love your thoughts and feedback!
- jrflowers 1y agoI like that the 3 other comments on this post are the only comments ever made by those accounts
- catlover76 1y ago[dead]
- andyprevalsky 1y agoBoooo
- jrflowers 1y agoI’m a big fan of the six accounts registered just to post in this thread. This makes Canteen look very professional and legitimate
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- andyprevalsky 1y agoits just called having friends showing support man, relax. they are all interested in using the product as well...
- annawang7 1y agoThis is cool! How do your agents handle outreach? Is it email/messages? If I want to approve before reaching out to leads is there a way to do that?
- andyprevalsky 1y agoYea! They handle outreach on their preferred communication channel, email, linkedin, or github. Agents can reach out to the potential hires anonymously (from our network / handles), or you can include a blurb about the company if that is what you want as well. Happy to work with you on a more custom solution as well! - reach out to arjun@thecanteenapp.com or 972-977-7432 if you want to work w us :)
- cagarza1000 1y agoThis is sooooo great - need this for my company!
- andyprevalsky 1y agoyayyy! excited to be working w u :3
- edwardkongg 1y agoThis is so sick...can't wait to try it out
- andyprevalsky 1y agothank u! excited to work w u and make your hiring process world class :)
- thjo1028 1y agoCool UX exposing the endpoint
- andyprevalsky 1y agothank u!!!
- jsjkim00 1y agoInteresting decision to leverage coding agents, wonder how it'll feel to blend those contexts. What does the agentic communication layer do for lead verification?
- andyprevalsky 1y agoIt'll communicate with them over their preferred social channel to make sure that they are available / interested in working for the person who asked!
- osamahqatanani 1y agoJust talked to the team, super dope
- andyprevalsky 1y agoAppreciate the love man <3
- apresser 1y agothis looks great
- andyprevalsky 1y agothank u!!!!
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- amiayoshimura 1y agosuper interesting, trying it out asap
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- YAndreaRusso 1y agowoah, hiring engineers has always been such a pain... this is super cool
- andyprevalsky 1y agoik right?!! it shouldn't be so hard..
- mosdl 1y agoI love all the bot comments and upvotes, always a good sign! I fail to see how this will make hiring faster/better - we already get so much recruiting spam, why would this be any different?
- andyprevalsky 1y agoaint no bots here sir This is different because you don't need to jump through hoops w/ recruiting agencies or spend a bunch of time looking through your employees or personal networks to find the right hires, and the lead verification part is automated too! It essentially shortcuts all the hiring headache, and lets you just focus on meeting highly qualified candidates that fit your JD without all the people that get in the middle of that process and bloat it.
- jrflowers 1y ago> aint no bots here sir That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian And these two have been waiting years to comment but were finally moved to for first time https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7
- andyprevalsky 1y agothey aren't bots they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...