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Yesterday felt pretty gloomy for those in tech. Several companies announced layoffs, including Lyft, Stripe, OpenDoor, and Chime. And let’s not forget Twitter which is cutting 50% of its employees today. 

Why is this happening? A few reasons. 

• The obvious one is the recession. Recent earnings reports are sending red signals to investors, making it more important than ever for companies to focus on increasing their profit margins and cutting costs. 
• But why so many this week? Chatter on Twitter hints that Elon Musk’s plan to cut 3,700 jobs this Friday gave companies the idea to do the same, thus taking some of the attention off of them for doing the same.
• Another theory we’ve seen floating around is that the holiday season approaching presumably makes the transition period easier. Conducting layoffs now also allows companies to meet the requirements of California’s WARN Act (i.e. 60-day notice) before Christmas.

What now? It’s hard to say how much longer it will be before we see the light at the end of the economic tunnel, or whether layoffs and hiring freezes will continue. What is clear is that, despite the noise in big tech, many companies are still hiring.

In the meantime... some tools to help you spot open positions:

• AI Jobs lets you apply to 1000+ jobs in AI and machine learning. 
• This jobs site aggregates fully remote jobs.
• Dream Job Hub is a step-by-step execution guide; like mission control for job applications.

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• Folkx leverages your tab-hoarding habit to build contact lists in Chrome.
• Bye-bye plugins and PSDs. Generate your product mockups with Pixelied Mockups.
• doola Banking – the entrepreneur’s bank lets you form your LLC and open a bank account with or without a US SSN.
• Womp lets you jump into 3D-design with an easy, free web app.

What if Brian Chesky had let early users invest in Airbnb? Fairmint is asking the question with their launch today.

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• Tech Twitter is buzzing about Avatar AI.
• Pursuit helps you take that fly fishing or backcountry skiing trip you couldn’t manage on your own. Learn about founding memberships.
• Praktika lets you practice English with AI avatars.
• Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman has a new show on startups called The Crazy Ones, co-hosted by Jesse Pujji (GatewayX) and Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss).

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• Need a better screenshot tool? Gemoo Snap includes features like annotations, magnify, and pinned images.
• Test your movie knowledge with Famous Movie Props.
• Airbuds is a widget to see what your BFF is listening to.
• Vowel is back with more features (like universal search, clips, and bookmarks) to make that meeting worth the time.

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• Moodboardly lets you create beautiful mood boards in minutes.
• With Ubidrop you can transfer files across Mac and Android seamlessly.
• Seen those viral videos that show the best posts from popular Reddit threads? Create them automatically with Reddit2Video.
• The 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise is here – Resident Evil Village. Planning to play?

Pry yourself away from Elon's Twitter drama today and check out Eurekaa.io, especially if you’re a content creator and don’t like wasting your time.

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• designstripe created an in-browser tool for beautiful mockups (no software needed).
• Get in the mood with this choose-your-own-adventure Halloween game in Notion.
• Maker Upen V has expanded the popular Micro SaaS Ideas newsletter into MicroSaaS HQ, a community for Micro SaaS builders.
• We’ve added more startup discounts to Founders Club, including deals from Ramp and Remotebase. See what’s new.

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• NOWHERE metaverse lets you video chat with friends, fans, or colleagues in beautiful 3D worlds.
• Sabil is for makers who need help to prevent account sharing (we see you, Netflix).
• Snipd lets you listen to AI-generated audio summaries of podcasts.
• Eureka is an app to support those suffering with Long Covid.

Today we’re looking at Dashworks and Needl, two products that want to help find your digital knowledge quicker. You know, that document you saved three months ago and promised you’ll remember it’s in your Slack bookmarks and not your email inbox. 

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• Ramp, the Fintech hyper-growth start-up that's currently valued at $8.1B+, released its new iOS app.
• Check out this pack of 21,000+ resources for Figma, which includes illustrations, 3D assets, and a mobile app kit. 
• Trillion is an AR-powered app that uses your mobile camera and lets you try on jewelry virtually. 
• Collect and share video and text testimonials from your customers with SocialJuice. Its no-code tools also allow you to embed these on your website as a carousel or wall of love.

An award-winning app called Clay will help you fix scattered connections across your social accounts. We’ll dig in.

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• Visme launched its own Whiteboard product, with features like wireframes, templates, and integrations with apps like Google Sheets.
• Tome is out of beta with more ways to customize your presentations storytelling, plus an iOS app.
• Highlight’s Node.js Integration gives you backend metrics monitoring and error recording for your JavaScript backend.
• Parents, Kanjo Health’s games use digital biomarkers to provide insights about your kids’ (age 5-10) mental health.

Meowy Monday. We’re talking about Lex, a new AI writing tool that comes from a notable tech writer who doesn’t seem worried about AI taking his job.

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• The makers of Doge Temple (Party.Space) are back with an offer to connect you and your squad in the metaverse for Halloween Quiz Night.
• Letterloop lets you create private newsletters for friends, families, and teams. It's back with a new app and more.
• Take shorter showers with this app.
• Fillout.com combines no-code and AI to instantly generate a form for you to customize.