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 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!

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

This is so sick...can't wait to try it out

I like that the 3 other comments on this post are the only comments ever made by those accounts

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?

Just talked to the team, super dope