Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Layoff.watch – email alerts about upcoming layoffs
Hey HN! I've been individually checking WARN notice pages about layoffs for a little while and I wanted to build a tool that would bring them all to one place, and email me anytime something comes up with a target keyword. I've got a POC built out with a few items but I wanted to see if anyone else would be interested in this kind of thing before I spend some more time on it. Appreciate your feedback!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Layoff.watch – email alerts about upcoming layoffs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Get company layoff notices up to 60 days in advance
2023 · layoffalertapp.com · its alternatives →
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Link is for CA based employers.
2023 · edd.ca.gov · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built WARN Firehose because I was frustrated trying to track layoff data across the US. The WARN Act requires companies with 100+ employees to file public notices 60 days before mass layoffs — but the data is scattered across 50 state websites with different formats, broken links, and no API. WARN Firehose scrapes every state workforce agency daily and normalizes the data into a single database going back to 1988. It now has 131,000+ notices covering 14 million workers. *What you can do:* - Browse interactive charts and data tables (no account needed):…
Feb 2026 · warnfirehose.com · its alternatives →
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Wishplz▲85Bookmark any product and get alerts when the price drops.
2014 · wishplz.com · its alternatives →
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- 7CA
Based on the multiple "Who's hiring remotely?" and similar posts on HN, I thought it might be useful to have a site that aggregates remote programming jobs. There is way too much spam out and an inconsistent way to say "work from home" so traditional searching doesn't work (or rather, takes a long time per person). I've worked in a few remote programming positions so I figured I might know of some companies or searching tricks to find them. Let me know if you'd find this type of thing useful. If we can get some traffic going, then maybe we can start attracting companies to actually list…
2010 · workfromhomeprogrammingjobs.com · its alternatives →
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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,…
Jan 2026 · layoffstoday.io · its alternatives →
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Are you counting milliseconds? Tell everyone!
2020 · cantwait.abstra.app · its alternatives →
- 10UO
When I see what some HN members have done in a weekend on their projects, it makes it hard to confess that it has taken us 1 year to get to this stage. I kept trying to make things perfect, but finally I have seen the light - it will never be perfect and even in its current state, I see so much we need to improve, but it's something. Instead of delaying even more, I thought I would release it to the best critics out there - HN say hello to MyProperty.com Hope to hear your feedback, criticism, thoughts.
2011 · its alternatives →
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- 12GL
Hello everyone, I got laid off last year and during the job hunt, I kept running into ghost jobs, these listings that never lead anywhere. Super frustrating. After some point, I started tracking company behavior across job boards. It snowballed into a little web app where you can actually see how companies are hiring — or pretending to. It's free, early stage, UI is a bit rough, but here’s what some info it shows per company: -Job boards they post on -ATS system they use -Median salary by role -Post frequency + how old the listings are -Skills and degree requirements -Track all existing…
2025 · app.ghostjobs.io · its alternatives →
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- 14JA
2017 · letmeknow.email · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I made an newsletter where I dump all my really good business ideas onto that I don't have the time to go do.
2024 · ideavault.framer.website · its alternatives →
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Founder here. I built this because many everyday notices are hard to understand: utility bills, medical bills, insurance letters, landlord notices, government letters, etc. The app extracts a few practical fields from an uploaded PDF/image: who sent it, who it is for, deadlines, amount owed, what it seems to mean, and what should be checked against the original. I know this is a sensitive area because people are uploading private documents. Current design choices: - users control retention/deletion - summaries are explicitly not legal/financial advice - failed or…
Jun 2026 · explainnotice.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! My name is Will. I’ve been leading engineering teams for over two decades. Also, first time HN user here! One of the common pains I’d encounter in nearly every product I managed was alerting end users to infrequent events like outages, global announcements, beta launches, planned maintenance, etc. We’d always need to deploy custom, one-off modals or other alerts and then have to remember to revert them later. It was always a time sink for a developer to put aside what they were working on to make this happen. This Is Not A Drill! is a simple-to-install JS SDK that makes it…
2024 · its alternatives →
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- 20SP
Hey, HN -- I just received the following email and I'm not sure what to do about it. Obviously I want to discourage requested-posting like this; is there some structured way that we can do that? One of the things I love about HN is how high the signal-to-noise ratio is relative to...pretty much the rest of the internet. I wouldn't ordinarily call someone out like this, but I want to innoculate HN against this sort of thing. ---- Hey doches, Not sure if it's conventional, but thought I'd ask anyway. Would you be open to posting about my product on Hacker News? I understand that similar to…
2022 · its alternatives →
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- 22AP
http://www.jobmailr.com/ Most of the valuable hires out there already have jobs and aren't actively looking for another. But would they be interested in getting relevant jobs emailed to them once a week or so, so that they were sure to hear about that dream position opening up? And would companies pay to access their inboxes? Asking myself, I found it valuable. Seeing if others do too is what jobmailr.com is trying to find out. If several hundred people sign up, there's an instant audience that employers can pay to access. If it doesn't gain traction amongst the would-be hires, then I'm just…
2011 · jobmailr.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I know there are already a few "Who Is Hiring" aggregators, but I wanted to show off what I've done. My project was cancelled right before Christmas, so this project was a great way to blow off some steam while procrastinating looking for a new job. Tangentially, I am looking for new career opportunities if your company needs a full stack web developer, lol. This website was completed in about a week and a half. I wanted to present it in a Show HN post on Jan 2 when the usual Who Is Hiring posts were featured, but I didn't think it had enough features to make it useful. Even…
2020 · its alternatives →
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I was a software engineer at a late stage startup and was caught in a layoff this January. When I looked into exercising my options or getting liquidity, I realized the secondary market is a total black box. Liquidity funds spend a fortune on Google Ads just to find people like us. Those high marketing costs eventually come out of our pockets in the form of higher fees and worse terms. I built StrikeRates to change that. The site is meant to be a central resource for anyone navigating this. I included a Liquidity 101 section that explains the different financial vehicles because that…
Mar 2026 · strikerates.com · its alternatives →
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