Meeting Cost Calculator provides business leaders with tools to quantify and track the cost of meeting time within their orgs to help eliminate unnecessary meetings, increase team productivity, and educate team members on meeting costs.
I am SO excited about Meeting Cost Calculator and hunting this launch. I've been personally noodling on this concept for years, so when I discovered @kevjord @amongmany @bgibson @jmpaul_astro @cvlvn had built this, I couldn't help but ask to help out.
While I've spent ~20 years of my career in startups where meetings aren't usually *too* big a problem, my time at CBS, Etsy, and WarnerMedia was basically almost non-stop meetings. I love the concept of getting managers (and employees) to get a real understanding of the actual cost to the *organization*. Rarely can you truly address the impact of (1) having too many people in meetings and (2) having too many meetings in general but also (3) having individuals spending so much of their time stuck in meetings as well.
I've actually been using it for my startup's product (Augie AI Assisted Video Editing) - it makes "this could've been an email" very very poignant! The onboarding was super easy - it even includes external meetings for me (so I can see how much it's cost me to do all my pitching!)
So go ahead, check out Meeting Cost Calculator, and let's all save time, and money, for our companies!
Hello Product Hunt! We’re excited to introduce you to Meeting Cost Calculator, our new tool to help teams understand their meeting culture through data.
We built Meeting Cost Calculator because our own team realized that we were spending a ton of time in meetings that seemed only marginally productive. This tool was built to evaluate whether we were truly wasting time. (Hint: we absolutely were!)
After dogfooding the product within our own org, we realized that simply by making team members more aware of the cost of meetings, we were able to encourage more considered scheduling and time use. In fact, our closed beta has demonstrated an average 39% reduction in meeting time resulting in a 28% increase in productivity!
Now we think this early version of Meeting Cost Calculator is AES encrypted and ready for the spotlight. (We have plenty more to come too!) Hit us up with any feedback, love, or constructive criticism. We look forward to hearing from you!
Amazing concept. Would you plan to release a pluggable API for other tools to send you some data & you can return the cost to them that they can use in their own projects to run some reports?
I always wanted to make something like this! I love it. I feel like my current team generally does a good job at managing meetings, so I'm not sure i'd want to use it at the moment, but I'm definitely saving this in the future because i wished we had this tool in previous roles where i felt our meetings were out of control and i didn't have any data to really show it.
Hey there! I’m Calvin, product lead for Meeting Cost Calculator. The team and I are incredibly stoked to share our newest tool all of you. We built Meeting Cost Calculator to help run our business with a data-driven point of view and very quickly discovered that seeing a cost associated with time really helped drive home the importance of good quality meetings.
Our initial goal was to give business leaders a clear view into what their business spends to facilitate meetings. Going forward, we plan to continue to provide even more data, as well as features that help improve meeting quality and culture. We’ve introduced support for Google Workspace users and very soon will be introducing Outlook support.
We'd love to hear from you. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Interesting, useful perspective idea! I may not have delved into all the functions of the product enough, but I will share my opinion.
1. Provide for the possibility of conducting a closed evaluation of the effectiveness of the meeting from the meeting participants, company management, performers in order to understand the cost effectiveness of the meeting or increase its effectiveness.
2. Provide an opportunity to calculate the cost of meetings not only from wages.
3. Ability to sort meetings into one-time and cyclic.
4. Adding an alert indicator for exceeding the meeting limit adopted by the company.
Very useful solution, at this moment we use one of your competitors - but insights that those type of platforms can provide are amazing, we reduce spends on a meetings.
Wow, nice product! This will help many companies realize that most of the meetings are useless. 👍
On the tech side and for business, I wonder if you've gone through the Google security audit 🔒 to integrate your app with the Google Calendar API? 📅
Hi, my name is Atasi and we are so excited to be with you and Product Hunt...this is really great presentation. Thank you
Hi, my name is Atasi Sarkar and we are so excited to be with you and Product Hunt.Thank you
Always wondered how much those long meetings cost us? Finally, a tool that lets us quantify and track meeting costs, helping us be more productive and mindful about the time we spend in meetings. Congratulations! 🌟
About Meeting Cost Calculator on Product Hunt
“Uncover the true costs of meetings”
Meeting Cost Calculator launched on Product Hunt on July 25th, 2023 and earned 139 upvotes and 38 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Meeting Cost Calculator provides business leaders with tools to quantify and track the cost of meeting time within their orgs to help eliminate unnecessary meetings, increase team productivity, and educate team members on meeting costs.
Meeting Cost Calculator was featured in Time Tracking (11.8k followers), Meetings (6.4k followers) and Calendar (32k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 9.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Meeting Cost Calculator?
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