Dev tools · September 16, 2025
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 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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Canteen is a recruiting platform designed to help companies hire technical talent faster and more affordably than traditional recruiting agencies. It searches across technical sources like GitHub, arXiv, and LinkedIn to identify qualified candidates, then uses automated outreach to verify leads and move them into the hiring pipeline. Companies input their job description through an AI interface, and Canteen handles candidate sourcing and initial contact, delivering warm, verified leads directly to email, CRM, or calendar systems.
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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 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!
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