Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost (recruiting.thecanteenapp.com)

16 points by andyprevalsky ↗ HN
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!

12 comments

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This is sooooo great - need this for my company!
This is so sick...can't wait to try it out
This 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?
I like that the 3 other comments on this post are the only comments ever made by those accounts
Cool UX exposing the endpoint
Interesting decision to leverage coding agents, wonder how it'll feel to blend those contexts. What does the agentic communication layer do for lead verification?
woah, hiring engineers has always been such a pain... this is super cool
I 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?