Land interviews with your dream startups, on autopilot.

Startup hiring isn't a numbers game. Focused outreach wins.

Backdoor helps you apply to the most relevant startup roles for you — so you wake up to interviews, not spam reports.

Where Backdoor watches for your next opening

Y Combinator
Product Hunt
TechCrunch
Crunchbase
Wellfound
Reddit
Y Combinator
Product Hunt
TechCrunch
Crunchbase
Wellfound
Reddit

+ honestly, the entire internet.

How it works

Ten carefully picked startups every day. Each one researched, qualified, and worth your tap - the opposite of mass-apply.

Profile Understanding

Step 1

Profile Understanding

A quick chat over iMessage gives Backdoor your background, ambitions, and the kind of roles you actually want. It understands your profile, background and work history.

Research & Pitch

Step 2

Research & Pitch

Every day, Backdoor combs the internet to surface startup roles that fit you best. It qualifies the top 10, then drafts the perfect pitch to get a conversation started.

Halcyon's Show HN post — caching tool calls
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YouYesterday, 9:14 AM
Saw the Halcyon Show HN post this morning — the bit about caching tool calls per agent session was the smartest take I’ve read all week. Free for a 20-min chat next week?
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Maya ParkToday, 10:42 AM
Ha — you actually read the post. Caching is the bane of my existence right now. Thursday 3pm PT works, sending an invite.
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Interview Scheduled
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM Google Meet
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Step 3

Follow ups + interview scheduling

Backdoor follows up four times with the goal of getting you an interview. Every reply (and every silence) feeds back in, improving response rate over time.

Backdoor is your hiring copilot and you can chat with it in plain english in iMessage. For detailed traceability, you can see all interactions in the dashboard.

Two ways in.

Tell Backdoor who you are. It watches for strong-fit opportunities from top startups and introduces you to them directly - free, always.

Want to move faster? Backdoor can actively find startups, sends them emails, and follows up until you get an interview - $8/week. Try free for the first week.

Questions, answered.

Builders and operators aiming at founder-led startups - early to mid stage, where one well-timed intro can turn into an interview. If your plan is to spray two hundred applications across big tech and corporate roles, this isn't the right fit. Startup hiring rewards fit, not volume.

Backdoor, your unfair advantage.

Text once. Backdoor handles the search, the outreach, and the follow-ups — you focus on the work only you can do.