Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work

I&#x27;m confused. Is there some aspect about a person being laid off that makes them more&#x2F;less desirable that they need a specific service to help them find a new job? I know some people who have been laid off might be dusty with job hunting skills and there are services to help anyone that specific area.<p>Also seeing a trend of <i>niche</i> job websites popping up... Fragmentation in this industry seems counterproductive.

I wish there was an „about” section or something similar.<p>Right now I see basically two registration forms.<p>Can anyone provide more context?

What&#x27;s the benefit of targeting only people who have been part of a high profile layoffs? Seems like a smaller pool on both sides-less people to recruit, and less recruiters who specifically are interested in these types of candidates.<p>If it&#x27;s as a proxy to quality of candidate, isn&#x27;t there a better way to measure that?

&gt; High profile layoffs in $whatever<p>Does &#x27;high profile&#x27; matter? My layoff months ago closed an office locally (25 people laid off) in a country-wide effort affecting about 200 people. It wasn&#x27;t in the news, there was no PR around the action. Further layoffs followed around the world, and still no news (publicly traded company - doesn&#x27;t The Market love a layoff?) The former parent company (who had created the spinoff 9mos previously) wasn&#x27;t aware (you&#x27;d expect networking between execs to maintain a grapevine, right?)<p>Interviewers were often incredulous. I feel like this was a factor in being declined an offer in a few cases.

So far seems to be a data mining effort. I create an account and then I&#x27;m whisked away to a form that want&#x27;s my information to build a profile. At this point, I have no idea what the service will specifically do for me, other than compile my information.

Similarly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.layoff-aid.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.layoff-aid.com&#x2F;</a>

To me, this looks like an email collection form. Do you actually have a product built, or are just testing the market?

So what&#x27;s with all the recruiting companies?

I tried something similar with &quot;rejected.dev&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coderfit.com&#x2F;rejected-dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coderfit.com&#x2F;rejected-dev</a>) but no one was interested. There is some kind of stigma attached to being rejected, it seems. If another firms throws you out, even if it is not your fault, there is still some loser touch attached to you and the perceived value of you drops, sadly.

Their privacy policy is in a `&lt;pre&gt;` with `overflow: auto;`.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;layoffs.at&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;layoffs.at&#x2F;privacy</a>

Grammatical error on the landing page.<p>&quot;Are you <i>a</i> Hiring?&quot;<p>Any github link where we can post issues?

Seems to have been hugged to death. Also, some of the header links seemed to not work, possibly due to overzealous ad blockers? Not sure, I clicked on something else and got a 502 after that.

Job markets are mostly national, so the site would benefit from stating their coverage on the front page. Especially if they are (mis)using a country top level domain.

Sorry, but this is just depressing. I would never use that.

I really got a kick out of this. Its sort of fiendishly brilliant to launch a &quot;layoff&quot; job board in advance of a recession.