Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost
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!
I fail to see how this will make hiring faster/better - we already get so much recruiting spam, why would this be any different?
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.
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=edwardkongg
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser
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=annawang7
they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that
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 :)