Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost

15 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by andyprevalsky

36 Comments

mosdl

12 hours ago

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?

andyprevalsky

11 hours ago

aint no bots here sir

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.

jrflowers

11 hours ago

andyprevalsky

11 hours ago

they aren't bots

they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...

andyprevalsky

11 hours ago

if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

jrflowers

11 hours ago

> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that

slater

5 hours ago

"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...

jrflowers

28 minutes ago

I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.

I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.

mosdl

10 hours ago

So your ai agent will send outreach emails to potential candidates it chooses, which is not really any different than using any of the automated recruiting tools already out there. I don't see what is the difference here - using LLMs to solve something that is already pretty much automates (outreach).

jsjkim00

12 hours ago

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?

andyprevalsky

12 hours ago

It'll communicate with them over their preferred social channel to make sure that they are available / interested in working for the person who asked!

annawang7

12 hours ago

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?

andyprevalsky

11 hours ago

Yea! They handle outreach on their preferred communication channel, email, linkedin, or github. Agents can reach out to the potential hires anonymously (from our network / handles), or you can include a blurb about the company if that is what you want as well.

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 :)

cagarza1000

12 hours ago

This is sooooo great - need this for my company!

jrflowers

12 hours ago

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

andyprevalsky

12 hours ago

Boooo

jrflowers

11 hours ago

I’m a big fan of the six accounts registered just to post in this thread. This makes Canteen look very professional and legitimate

andyprevalsky

11 hours ago

its just called having friends showing support man, relax. they are all interested in using the product as well...

user

11 hours ago

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YAndreaRusso

12 hours ago

woah, hiring engineers has always been such a pain... this is super cool

edwardkongg

12 hours ago

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

andyprevalsky

12 hours ago

thank u! excited to work w u and make your hiring process world class :)