Laya

The Real Problem Isn't Volume - It's Fragmentation The problem with unified inboxes, notification aggregator, and "productivity" tool out there is that they solve the wrong problem. They assume the issue is having too many notifications in too many places, so they put them all in one place. But that just gives you one place with too many notifications. The real problem is threefold: 1. Redundancy. The same event triggers notifications on 3-4 platforms. A Jira ticket update pings Jira, Slack (via integration), email (via Jira notifications), and sometimes the linked PR on Bitbucket. You end up processing the same information four times. 2. Context fragmentation. The same issue, project, or decision is scattered across platforms, each with its own vocabulary. Humans naturally give things different names depending on context -- a colloquial shorthand in Slack, a formal title in Jira, a technical description in a PR. No existing tool connects these. 3. Work-before-work. Before you can make a decision, you need to reconstruct context. That means opening 3-4 tabs, reading threads, cross-referencing ticket IDs, and mentally building a picture of what happened. This is significant overhead every single day. I needed a tool that didn't just collect notifications -- it needed to understand them, connect them, and do the reconstruction work for me. So I built one. ## What Laya Does Laya is a desktop app that sits between your tools and your attention. It intercepts events from Jira, Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Bitbucket, Calendar, Linear, Outlook, and Notion -- then does three things before you ever see a notification: ###