Layoffstoday
Open database tracking for 10k Companies
Details
- External ID
- 46549790
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Layoffstoday
- Website domain
- layoffstoday.io
- Launched
- Jan. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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 sourcesNormalizes data by company, date, industry, and affected headcountShows historical patterns instead of isolated headlinesWhy 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 / gapsSignals that would actually help job seekersWhether alerts or trend indicators are useful or noisy
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- HR & recruiting
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- database tracking layoffs at public companies
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An aggregation and normalization pipeline for tech layoff data combined with a CRUD frontend dashboard is a classic, easily vibe-coded project.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Data accuracy issues - incorrect dates on layoff events, Data gaps and missing information
Feature requests: Filter by country, Monthly and quarterly trend reports, Expanded metrics section
Competitors
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Attention rank: #84 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 71 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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