Tech for good during COVID-19: Sky-high gifts, extra help, and chips
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/03/tech-for-good-during-covid-19-sky-high-gifts-extra-help-and-chips/
When Roger Lee, the co-founder of Human Interest, heard that San Francisco imposed shelter-in-place orders, he started blogging about layoff news and posting crowdsourced lists of employees who were laid off. His goal was to increase awareness about layoffs and give recruiters a place to search for candidates.
However, one week and 40 startup layoffs later, Lee saw his blog was not going to be able to keep up with the massive number of cuts happening across the country. So, Layoffs.fyi tracker was born and currently receives tens of thousands of visitors every day.