GitHired

GitHired is an AI-powered technical recruiting platform that evaluates software engineers based on their GitHub profiles rather than resumes. Founded in November 2025 by Raghav Bansal and Krishna Oza, the company uses code complexity analysis, project depth, and tech stack assessment to rank developer candidates against a job description.¹

Origin

Bansal built the first version of GitHired with a team at Cal Hacks, UC Berkeley's annual hackathon, in late 2025, and won the competition.⁴ The founding team at Cal Hacks included Aarav Matalia and Asmi Kachare alongside Bansal.³ Krishna Oza joined as COO when Bansal decided to turn the project into a company, and they formally founded GitHired in November 2025.³ In the Hacker News launch post, Bansal described the premise: resumes are inflated, activity charts are gamed, and ATS filters reward keyword density rather than engineering ability.²

The launch attracted debate from engineers who argued that GitHub signals are unreliable for experienced developers who do all their work in private company repositories. HN user gregjor argued that commit activity reflects software development artifacts rather than the craft itself, and that domain expertise and team dynamics matter far more than mastery of specific languages.² Others raised the possibility that candidates could game the system by commissioning work to populate repositories.² Bansal responded directly, clarifying that the platform's intended customers are startups hiring college students and recent graduates, not senior engineers, and that commit volume contributes only "bonus points" to scoring while the algorithm focuses on project complexity, architecture, and frameworks.²

Product

GitHired analyzes a candidate's GitHub activity — including personal private repositories with candidate consent — to evaluate code complexity, project depth, active technology stack, and shipping frequency.¹ The platform includes logic to detect inflated commit histories, a practice Bansal called "fake green square farming."² Engineers not actively applying on platforms like LinkedIn but whose GitHub activity indicates availability can be surfaced through the platform's sourcing layer, per the company's description.¹

The platform accepts a job description and returns a ranked list of candidates sourced from GitHub and LinkedIn.¹ Hiring teams can also import existing applicant lists and have them ranked on the same dashboard.² Unlocking a profile costs 100 credits and the access is permanent regardless of future subscription status.¹

GitHired runs on a subscription and credit model. The Starter plan costs $50 per month and includes 5,000 credits, with unused credits rolling over month to month. The Growth plan costs $499 per month and includes 60,000 credits, along with priority support, faster search, and a dedicated onboarding call. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes unlimited unlocks, SSO, audit logs, custom SLAs, and white-glove candidate sourcing.¹

Customers

GitHired's listed customers include 10x (a startup), Binsr, Roam, and Matcap.¹ On Product Hunt, the platform is described as a tool for creating autonomous hiring forms that instantly rank applicants based on what they have actually built.⁶

Funding and accelerator

GitHired received seed funding at ASU's Venture Devils Demo Day on April 11, 2026. Venture Devils is a bi-annual pitch competition run by Arizona State University that distributes seed funding to student-founded companies.⁷ The exact amount GitHired received has not been disclosed publicly. In April 2026, the company was accepted to Founders, Inc.'s Canopy Spring 2026 cohort, a five-week program for early-stage builders at the Founders, Inc. campus in San Francisco.⁸ On April 1, 2026, Bansal announced GitHired 2.0, opening early access to existing users.⁹

References

1. GitHired | Find your next 100x engineer(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
2. Show HN: GitHired – Find Your Next 10x Engineer — Hacker News(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
3. GitHired Cal Hacks origin — LinkedIn post by Asmi Kachare(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
4. Silicon Oasis Magazine — Issue No. 08, January 2026(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
5. GitHired launch post — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
6. GitHired: The fastest way to find 100x engineers — Product Hunt(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
7. Raghav Bansal — Venture Devils Demo Day funding post — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
8. Canopy — Founders, Inc.(accessed Apr 21, 2026)
9. Raghav Bansal — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 21, 2026)