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Unlike reference or background checks, Layover is candidate-owned and portable: you write up what you actually did, a former manager (identity-verified) confirms it, and you get a credential you control and can share anywhere. Verified employment, real exit status, and manager-attested achievements in one link. A real, accountable person stands behind your work instead of another unverifiable bullet point. Free for founding users.
Hi Product Hunt. I'm Alex, founder of Layover.
Navigating a layoff used to mean walking your résumé in and having a human look you in the eye. Now it's a steel door marked "Careers," and behind the plexiglass sits Noreply, an old boiler with a screen for a face. You slide your folder in. A laser scans it. "Ah, this looks familiar." A hatch opens in its chest, crushes seven years of your work into a ball, and drops it in. "Thank you for applying. Have a wonderful afternoon."
Like hundreds of thousands of others, I got laid off this year. Three days' notice, family of four, not much runway. But I felt the layoff wasn't the real problem. I had the skills and experience. The problem was Noreply: a system where landing an interview feels like a lottery, and AI prints tickets by the thousand. When anyone can prompt a flawless résumé, "flawless" becomes the floor and the actual human disappears.
So while I sent applications into the void, I built the thing I wished I had. The idea: stop trying to write better résumés, and start proving the real work. With Layover, you write up what you actually did, a former manager (identity-verified) confirms it, and you get a credential you own and share. A real, accountable person stands behind your work instead of another unverifiable bullet point.
It started as a scoring system based on HR performance reviews and manager ratings, but I killed that early. A number a manager picks is just false precision, and an early user who happened to be a fraud analyst immediately picked up on that. What's left is the part that's actually un-fakeable: a real person, identity-verified, going on record about your actual work.
It's free for founding users while I build out the network. I'd genuinely love feedback, especially from anyone who hires, gets hired, or has met their own version of Noreply.
What would make a credential like this actually useful to you?
How do you handle situations where a manager refuses to verify, like can a candidate use an alternate verifier?
About Layover on Product Hunt
“Your résumé makes claims. Layover proves them.”
Layover was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Unlike reference or background checks, Layover is candidate-owned and portable: you write up what you actually did, a former manager (identity-verified) confirms it, and you get a credential you control and can share anywhere. Verified employment, real exit status, and manager-attested achievements in one link. A real, accountable person stands behind your work instead of another unverifiable bullet point. Free for founding users.
Layover was featured in Hiring (15.4k followers), Tech (627.4k followers) and Social Networking (1.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 176.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Layover?
Layover was hunted by Alex Alaniz. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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