Meeting Cost Ticker
Watch the money burn on meetings
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Meeting Cost Ticker - Watch the money burn on meetings

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A live per-second dollar ticker for your meetings. Set headcount + average salary, hit start, and watch the running cost climb. No signup, no backend — everything runs in your browser. Share the running total to make the cost visceral. Free. A 00-lab experiment.

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Holi Product Hunt! 👋 I built Meeting Cost Ticker after sitting in a recurring meeting and having one of those thoughts: “How much is this actually costing us right now?” The problem is that meeting costs are invisible. An hour on the calendar feels free, but once you factor in the number of people in the room and their time, the cost can add up surprisingly fast. So I built a tiny tool that makes that cost visible in real time. Enter the number of attendees and an average salary, hit start, and watch the estimated cost tick up every second. 💸 I wanted to keep it deliberately simple: no signup, no backend, no tracking — everything runs locally in your browser. I also added a “Share the damage” button so you can copy the running total and drop it into Slack, Teams, or wherever your meeting is happening. 😈 This started as a small idea from a real frustration, and I’d love to hear what you think. What would make it more useful? What am I missing? Thanks for checking it out! 🚀

Does the salary input factor in part-time vs full-time or just take the raw number as the hourly cost? Curious how it handles someone like a contractor billing a different rate than a salaried employee on the same call.

The ticking sound effect is a nice touch, makes the cost feel real instead of just a number on a screen. Cranked it up during a meeting that should have been an email and finally got folks to wrap up.

Finally dragged my team off a 90-minute "sync" thanks to this. Watching the number climb in real time is uncomfortably effective at shutting up scope creep.

Love how it runs entirely client-side with zero signup friction. The per-second ticking feels almost uncomfortably honest, which is exactly the point.

Does the salary input default to a median figure or am I plugging in actual loaded comp, and is there a way to split out contractors vs FTE so the number reflects what we're really spending?