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.
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!
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!
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