Tool · Ongoing platform

Hire Startup Talent on Wellfound

Wellfound Freemium Beginner

If you have no warm intros, you need a pond stocked with people who actually want startup work, and Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) is the biggest one. You can post a role for free and reach developers who self-selected into early-stage companies, which matters more than raw volume when you are unknown. Pair it with GitHub and LinkedIn outreach rather than treating any one platform as the whole answer.

• Free job posting and a large pool of startup-minded candidates make it a sensible first move when you have no network to lean on.
• The candidates chose a startup job board, so you skip a lot of the mismatch you get spraying generic job boards.
• It handles applications and basic tracking, but you still owe every promising person a personal, specific message to stand out as an unknown founder.