Is that true? What's the source?

Hey! I run a small competitor monitoring service for SaaS founders. One of the paid features lets you see what keywords a competitor ranks for on Google. I figured that's useful enough on its own, so I pulled it out as a free tool.

You just paste any website URL and it shows the top 10 keywords that site ranks for, with the Google position, monthly search volume, keyword difficulty, and search intent. Takes about 3 seconds.

Hey, I'm Maxime. I run ChampSignal, a small competitor monitoring tool.

One of the paid features is a news tracker for competitors. I wanted to make a free lite version that anyone can try without signing up. Paste a company URL and get their recent press mentions from the last 30 days. No signup.

How it works: enter something like "figma.com", the tool grabs the company name and runs a deep search across news sources. It crawls them live and makes short AI summaries for each hit. I filter out Reddit and the company's own domain so you only see third-party coverage.

Built with SvelteKit + Tailwind, deployed on Vercel.

Curious what results you get for companies you follow :D

I noticed a lot of people want competitive intel when launching a new business or product, but don't need ongoing monitoring.

Most tools in this space are built for continuous tracking. But if you're just launching and need to understand your market, you don't want to pay monthly for something you'll use once.

So I built this. You give it your URL, it generates a 22-page PDF analyzing 10 competitors using real data from 15+ sources (LLMs, SEO APIs, third-party scrapers, custom website scrapers).

Covers positioning, pricing, SEO gaps, review sentiment, feature matrices, ad creatives. It's quite comprehensive :D

Stack: SvelteKit, Trigger.dev, Playwright, Prisma/Postgres, R2.

Example report: https://champsignal.com/app/reports/33c7a247-51a1-4d71-809e-...

This is sick... you can just do things :D

With K3! Otherwise you're fucking yourself up.

Oh dear, here we go again.

IU, not mg.

K2, not K3.

Imaging the number of people that this comment could inspire to get on SSRIs lol

I'm not saying it's a bad.

But I'm also saying there are no magic pills...!

10% cut of the corporate workforce in 2 months is wild lol

Crazy most of it is programmers (and/or various other white collar jobs) tbh

Doesn't say it's programmers though but middle management:

> Amazon slashed 14,000 white-collar jobs in late October, with CEO Andy Jassy stressing the need for the company to eliminate *excessive bureaucracy* by trimming operational levels and reducing the number of managers.

I woke up to two of my engineer friends telling me they got laid off, so it’s not all middle management

Yes but this is a lie, a vast majority of the cuts in both rounds from October and today have been individual contributors, not managers.

Do you have a source for that?

I work at Amazon and I see who got cut.

You can also check the WARN notice in WA.

You can find the warn notices here. [0] From a quick script I wrote up, it seems that ~60% of layoffs noted on 1/26/2026 are from individual contributors

[0]: https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employe...

The new notice came out, that one is for Amazon Fresh only I think. It's 84% ICs now.

Seems sus, even if they got rid of half the managers, would that add up to the layoffs they've done?

Ah thanks for clearing that up.

> It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful

It does hurt, that's why all programmers now need an entrepreneurial mindset... you become if you use your skills + new AI power to build a business.

That is motivational content, but not economics. Most startups will be noise, even more so than before. The value of being a founder ceases when everyone is a founder, when it becomes universal. You will need customers. Nobody wants to buy re-invented-the-wheel-74.0. It lacks character, it lacks soul. Without it, your product will be nothing but noise in a noisy world.

What about the people who dont want to be entrepreneurs?

They have to pivot to something else

Or stay ahead of the curve as long as possible, e.g. work on the loop/ralphing

permanent underclass...

Now ChampSignal is gathering just a much data on YOUR business than it is on your competitors.

This allows the Champ AI agent to give fascinating insights.

Champ starts accumulating data from day 1 and gets better over time at knowing everything about your competitive landscape.