The first crowdsourced platform that tracks startup founders who ghost candidates — so you stop wasting weeks of your life on companies that won't even send a rejection email.
The startup recruiting ecosystem has a transparency gap. Glassdoor covers culture. LinkedIn shows connections. But nobody surfaces the founders who routinely disappear after spending your time — until now.
Candidates spend hours on take-homes, multiple rounds, and technical interviews — only to hear nothing back. No rejection. No closure. Just silence.
There's no Glassdoor for founder behavior. Candidates go in blind. Founders face no reputational cost for wasting people's time and emotional energy.
The worst offenders vanish at the offer stage — after you've turned down other jobs. You get left hanging, burning bridges you can't unburn.
A founder who ghosts 40% of candidates operates in total darkness. Their next victim has no idea. The same cycle repeats, company after company, candidate after candidate.
Three steps from "I just got ghosted" to "I'm never interviewing with that founder again."
Spent 3 weeks on a 5-round loop and then nothing? Spend 90 seconds submitting a ghosting report. Free. No account needed. Help others avoid your fate.
Before your next interview, search the founder. See their ghost rate, read real candidate experiences, and get a clear reputation score — updated in real time.
Go in with eyes open. Or pass. Either way, you've just saved yourself from an ambush. Your time is too valuable to gamble on silence.
Startups subscribe to see their own reputation score and incoming candidate feedback — before it spirals. Get alerts when a new report lands. Resolve issues. Fix the loop. A bad reputation score is a recruiting liability; better to know and fix it than be blindsided.
Every feature was designed with one question in mind: does this help a candidate make a better decision about where to spend their time?
Tens of thousands of reports from real candidates. Filter by founder, company, role type, and ghosting stage. Every report is timestamped and moderated.
Composite 0–100 score per founder: ghost rate × report volume × recency × stage breakdown. Clear tiers: Reliable, Proceed with Care, High Risk.
See exactly where a founder tends to ghost (offer stage? loop?). Get targeted tips: questions to ask, commitments to get in writing, time-sinks to avoid.
Watch a founder. Get notified the moment a new report is filed. Set weekly digests. Track score drops. Never be caught off guard by a ghosting pattern.
AI-powered duplicate detection flags copy-paste spam. Verified account reports carry more weight. Founder disputes are surfaced publicly with resolution status.
For founders and HR leads: see your candidate feedback before it becomes a reputation problem. Resolve reports. Benchmark your ghost rate against similar-stage startups.
Candidates report for free — that's the whole point. Subscribers pay for the signal that saves them weeks of their life.
Founder Ghosting Detector is building the transparency layer that the startup recruiting ecosystem has needed for a decade. We're funded by believers who are tired of hearing "I got ghosted again."
Built with ❤️ for every candidate who's ever been left on read.
Project 26 of ~34 · April 2026 · Pre-seed