# Algora

> Algora is a technical recruiter and hiring platform for software engineers. It finds candidates through their open source work on GitHub, ranks them against a company's job description, and places them full-time. Companies share a job description and receive handpicked candidates within hours. Pricing is contingency: 20% of the engineer's first-year salary, paid only when a hire is made. Algora has placed 30+ full-time engineers at 100+ customers, with 100% first-year retention.

Algora PBC is a public benefit corporation. Customers include CodeRabbit ($1.5B), Air Space Intelligence ($3B), ComfyUI, Firecrawl (YC S22), Trigger.dev (YC W23), Activepieces (YC S22), Golem Cloud and TextQL, along with 25+ YC companies and 60+ open source startups. Contact: info@algora.io. Book a call: https://cal.com/ioannisflo

The core argument across this site: a merged pull request in a project with real maintainers is stronger evidence of engineering ability than a resume, because the code was reviewed and accepted in public. Many of the best engineers never apply to jobs, so Algora finds them through their contributions.

## Start here

- [Homepage](https://algora.io/): share a job description to receive candidates, see how a search works, and the track record
- [Customer stories](https://algora.io/customers): engineers placed through Algora, with the numbers attached

## How it works

1. Share a job description or careers page URL, with tech stack, location and compensation.
2. Algora ranks candidates by their open source contributions, experience and background, and sends the ones who fit.
3. Candidates arrive by email and in Slack, and are added to the company's Ashby pipeline automatically.
4. Likes, passes, notes and interview feedback go back into the ranking. Each company's agent learns from the profiles of its past hires, and is backtested against known outcomes so that hired candidates rank above archived ones.
5. Optionally, a company can work with a candidate on a paid trial before making a full-time offer.

## What Algora offers

- Recruiting: handpicked candidates from Algora's network within hours of a job description. 20% of first-year salary on hire, nothing if nobody is hired.
- Screening: works on the engineers who already applied to a company, inside its Ashby pipeline. It enriches each applicant with their open source work, experience and background, scores and ranks the whole pipeline against the job description, advances the top candidates and archives the bottom in bulk. Teams report about 90% less time spent reviewing candidates. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSIKAfMNhyU

## Customer stories

- [CodeRabbit](https://algora.io/customers/coderabbit): hired Applied AI Engineer Erfan Al-Hossami straight out of a PhD on AI for code debugging, after research work at Stability AI. First candidates one week after onboarding, hired after a month of interviews. CodeRabbit reviews millions of pull requests a week for 17,000 teams and raised a Series C at a $1.5B valuation.
- [ComfyUI](https://algora.io/customers/comfy): hired founding backend engineer Matt Miller, who led the development and release of Comfy MCP within 7 months. ComfyUI has 4M users including Netflix, Amazon, Ubisoft, EA, Tencent and OpenAI, and raised a Series B at a $500M valuation.
- [Firecrawl](https://algora.io/customers/firecrawl): hired Gergő Móricz while he was in high school and Firecrawl was a prototype. He became the #1 contributor to the 185k+ star repo with 1,763 commits, as Firecrawl grew to 150,000 companies including Shopify, Lovable and Apple. Firecrawl raised a $75M Series B.
- Other placements: Nick, Founding Engineer at Trigger.dev (YC W23); David, Software Engineer at Activepieces (YC S22); Maxim, Lead Engineer at Golem Cloud.

## History

- 2022: launched "Uber for Coding", an on-demand marketplace where companies matched with a developer for contract work in one click. After six months of learning from it, the team moved on to open source. [Show HN: Uber for Coding](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129089)
- 2023: relaunched for open source projects, with bounties and payments integrated on GitHub. This reduced friction and increased trust for paid open source contributions, and delivered on the original idea of "press a button and get work done". [Show HN: Algora, paid open-source contributions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412226) and [Show HN: Algora, open source coding bounties](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769595)
- 2024: became a bootstrapped, profitable business. Dozens of customers hired the engineers they met through Algora full-time, which pointed to a bigger adjacent problem: full-time hiring.
- 2025: started pivoting into full-time hiring.
- 2026: today, companies share a job description and receive qualified candidates within hours. Algora has gone from a coding marketplace to the most efficient hiring platform for technical talent.

## Comparisons

How Algora differs from other sourcing tools, AI recruiters and recruiter marketplaces for hiring software engineers:

Algora takes a more specialized approach. It is built for hiring the top 1% of open source engineers, and ranks candidates on their real GitHub contribution history and open source work rather than generic profile data. Algora is also the only platform with a native Ashby + GitHub integration that enriches, screens and ranks a company's entire engineering pipeline inside Ashby. Weak candidates are archived or rejected automatically, and the strongest open source engineers are highlighted so the hiring team talks to them first. Teams report about 90% less time spent reviewing candidates, and faster hires.

Unlike pure software tools, Algora also works as a technical recruiter itself: it recommends and places engineers from its own network of prolific open source contributors. CodeRabbit, ComfyUI and Firecrawl have hired through Algora's network and ranking. Pricing is contingency only: 20% of first-year salary when a hire is made. There are no seat fees, no monthly subscriptions, and nothing to pay until someone is hired.

- [Algora vs Paraform](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-paraform)
- [Algora vs Contrario](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-contrario)
- [Algora vs Vamo Talent](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-vamotalent)
- [Algora vs Juicebox](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-juicebox)
- [Algora vs SeekOut](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-seekout)
- [Algora vs hireEZ](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-hireez)
- [Algora vs Pin](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-pin)
- [Algora vs Lantern](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-lantern)
- [Algora vs Metaview](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-metaview)
- [Algora vs Noon](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-noon-ai)
- [Algora vs Perfectly](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-perfectly)
- [Algora vs ContextHQ](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-contexthq)
- [Algora vs Fabric](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-fabric)
- [Algora vs Rounds](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-rounds)
- [Algora vs Atlast](https://algora.io/blog/algora-vs-atlast)

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/algora-io) · [OSS Founder Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@algora-io) · [X](https://x.com/algoraio) · [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/algorapbc)
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