Welcome to Monday. Threads is continuing on its journey to gather as many users as possible and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. The Twitter rival now has one-fifth of Twitter’s weekly active users. Do you think Threads will take the crown, or is it a hype train? 

As the old saying goes, few things in life are certain. Death, taxes, and  — if you’re in tech  — lots of meetings. 

Meetings, while a mostly essential part of remote work, can be inefficient, and oftentimes you might think, “Could this have been an email?” It can even cost the company money.

That’s why Scalar launched their new meetings insight tool. It’s a Chrome extension designed to give you a new perspective on meetings. It tracks the cost of every meeting you attend and schedule, and gives you a bird's eye view of your company’s meeting landscape so you can see what needs to stay and what can go. 

Point proven: This isn’t some shot in the dark, either. Companies around the world are looking at how much their meetings cost them and figuring out which to cut. A notable example is Shopify. The company cut around 300k hours worth of meetings to allow employees to focus on work.

Privacy at the core: A hard truth about debating meeting costs is that salaries must be visible. Scalar’s Insights tool is currently built for CEOs, HR, and other executive roles who have salary visibility, and the team is working on implementing Insights for all levels whilst maintaining salary privacy. 

So if you’re stuck in wall-to-wall meetings, it might be time to try…

• Lingolol lets you learn a second language through laughter. 

• Promp is a marketplace to discover and sell AI prompts.

• WishTip lets you create a wishlist that people can donate cash towards.

• Minipay brings the pay-for-usage modal to your subscriptions.

• Folio 2.0 turns your product demos into immersive experiences designed to convert.

• AIMailman uses AI to help you craft more effective emails for sales, support, and more.

• dstack is an open-source tool that makes it easier and more cost-efficient to build LLMs.