Don't apply. Build something they can't ignore.
Built for software engineers. We research 2,271 startups and turn what we find into a portfolio project only you could have built for them — so you show up already having solved their problem. 1,161 open roles are live right now.
Five steps, one goal: get remembered.
Find the gap
We research thousands of startups (job posts, engineering blogs, GitHub, founder interviews) and surface a specific problem worth solving, along with why fixing it matters to them.
Shippers can see where a load stands, but nothing nudges them when it stalls — someone still has to notice and follow up by hand.
A shipper who has to chase their own status starts wondering what else is being missed. Closing that gap is the kind of quiet trust-builder that's easy to overlook and easy to lose.
Build the proof
A guided Claude/Codex prompt walks you through building the fix, step by step, while we monitor progress, review the diff, and leave feedback until it's ready to ship.
You're building a proof-of-concept for Cartage, a freight-coordination startup. Build a dashboard that flags any shipment with no carrier status update in the last 24 hours, surfaces the shipper's contact and last known location, and drafts a one-click follow-up email. Use Next.js and Postgres, log every flagged shipment to a delay_events table, and write unit tests for the delay-detection logic before wiring up the UI...
Nice start — add a retry state for failed status checks before this ships.
Auto-detected from your repoPackage the deliverable
Your build gets its own pitch page: a live demo, the gap it fixes, and the stack you used, laid out for a founder to see in seconds, before it ever gets sent.
Delayed-shipment alert dashboard
Shippers can see where a load stands, but nothing nudges them when it stalls — someone still has to notice and follow up by hand.
Send it
We draft the founder outreach around what you actually built: short, human, and impossible to mistake for a generic application.
Hey — quick one. I noticed Cartage doesn't nudge a shipper when a load stalls, so someone still has to catch it manually. I got curious and built a small proof of concept for how that could work. Take fifteen minutes and see it live demo — would love to hear what you think.
Track it all
Every company you're pursuing lives on one board, from a flagged idea to an in-progress build to a sent pitch. Stages move forward as you finish real work, never backward, never by dragging.
Cards move forward as you finish real work — there's no dragging, and nothing moves backward.
Let happy builders convince the rest.
“I came from a school nobody in Silicon Valley had heard of. I had to figure out, the hard way, what it actually takes to land a role at a top startup — so I turned it into a strategy anyone can use. It's built entirely around initiative, which is exactly what SF's best teams are looking for.”