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by cobertos 123 days ago
Interesting, though a lot of the UI seems broken. For my state I see some notice dates in the future (it's not explained why, if this is when the filing will be executed or if it's an incorrect filing date, as the column is just "Notice Date")

Some of the entries pull up a page that says "Failed to load company data: No company name provided in URL" from the state specific view (e.g, any link on https://warnfirehose.com/data/layoffs/california ). Has a vibe-coded feel to it.

I saw a lot of "Purchase dataset for city details" in places which was annoying. Wondering how much processing is being done on the base dataset to justify the pricing. Could you explain a bit on the normalization/cleaning process?
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skadamat 123 days ago
Definitely vibe coded. It follows the same generic Claude UI patterns for a data app / data oriented website. Not necessarily a bad thing per say if it's still curated and tweaked with human taste. And ofc validated to work :)
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sendkamal 122 days ago
Hi @skadamat - I am not very experienced with claude code and don't know what it has done previously but new opus 4.6 is great. I think I need to work on claude.md. That really seems to be the soul of Claude. I've incurred quite a lot of money on API cost and claude plan and my time. But I feel like that can be cut to 1/4th easily with a solid claude.md plan.
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sendkamal 122 days ago
@cobertos The UI things should have been addressed. However I did to an extensive testing myself and everything seemed to have worked for me. I am sold that vibe coding is a thing, seriously. To your question about normalization cleaning - I have gone through multiple iterations - the data is definitely not clean and all. However, claude has made a function (instead of cleaning them on demand, it has a function which gets updated with every pattern so it could be reused).

For the pricing, to be honest I have zero hope to make money. Its just out there because I wanted to integrate this with stripe for payments and all. At the same time, if you look at competitor sites, they seem crap lol. plus look at their pricing. The site does have some operating cost and I will have to recover them if i can if I want it to be self sustainable but only if this is a value to someone. I am trying to make this a value. Please offer if you have ideas and I would appreciated it :)

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