Stop screening resumes. Look at the work.

There are a lot of good engineers who are terrible at making themselves look good on paper.

And there are a lot of people who are very good at looking good on paper.

We built DevLabs because founders should be able to see the difference.

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Founder brief

Need a full-stack engineer who can ship an MVP in 3 weeks.

DevLabs search

Match by shipped work, stack, and startup pace.

1Tell us what needs to get built

Instead of throwing keywords into a giant database, describe the product problem, stack, stage, and timeline.

hackathon work

github

agent traces

shipped product

2See the proof behind each builder

We use projects, GitHub, hackathons, hacker houses, and Claude Code or Codex traces to show how someone actually builds.

Shortlist

5 engineers worth a real conversation not 500 profiles to sort

3Interview from context

Your first call starts with what they shipped, what decisions they made, and where they fit your team.

Built for small teams

Five strong candidates are more useful than 500 search results.

Early-stage hiring breaks when founders spend all week filtering. The job is to find the few people with enough proof, speed, and taste to be worth a serious conversation.

Tell us the role

Share the product area, stack, seniority, timeline, and the kind of builder you need.

We pull from real builder signal

DevLabs looks across hackathons, hacker houses, projects, GitHub work, and agent traces.

You get a small list worth calling

Instead of another feed to sort, you get candidates with evidence you can inspect.