Beacon

Beacon is a local-first outreach workspace for finding high-signal startup targets, verifying trustworthy founder or work emails, drafting tailored hiring outreach, and tracking follow-ups.

It is built for early engineering role search workflows: batch-wise company discovery, founder-first targeting, high-confidence email filtering, Resend-powered sending, CSV export, and SQLite persistence.

Features

• Batch-wise startup discovery from YC data
• Fit scoring for backend, infra, Web3, crypto, fintech, devtools, and AI startups
• Founder, hiring page, and official-site enrichment
• High-confidence email filtering with source and MX checks
• Draft variants for active hiring, strong-fit no-role, AI, crypto, infra, and devtools outreach
• SQLite persistence for leads, drafts, notes, statuses, follow-up dates, and enrichment results
• Resend bulk sending with explicit queue and approval steps
• Daily send/follow-up view and CSV export

Setup

npm install
cp .env.example .env.local
npm run dev

Set the optional environment variables in .env.local:

BEACON_DB_PATH=./data/yc-flow.sqlite
RESEND_API_KEY=
RESEND_FROM_EMAIL="Vaibhav Pandey <outreach@yourdomain.com>"
RESEND_REPLY_TO_EMAIL=

Commands

npm run dev
npm test
npm run typecheck
npm run build