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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 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…

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