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Hi HN,

I built Layoffstoday, an open platform that tracks tech layoffs across ~6,500 companies.

What it does:

Aggregates layoff events from public news sources

Normalizes data by company, date, industry, and affected headcount

Shows historical patterns instead of isolated headlines

Why I built it: During job transitions, I noticed people had to jump across news articles, spreadsheets, and social posts just to answer simple questions like “Has this company laid people off before?” or “Is this happening across the industry?”

This is an attempt to make that information structured, searchable, and accessible.

Would love feedback on:

Data accuracy / gaps

Signals that would actually help job seekers

Whether alerts or trend indicators are useful or noisy