Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Meeting Waste Calculator
I work as a part-time programmer at Gumroad. At the beginning of September, I came back from a three-week long vacation, and a lot has changed at work. Both in terms of how much stuff was shipped and how we do things internally. Everybody switched to using Cursor for development, and productivity skyrocketed. I gave it a try, and the first thing I asked the chat was to give me a summary of the highlights that shipped while I was gone, and it came up with a pretty decent output (https://x.com/RaulOnRails/status/1830580206178070932). This was basically the spark that…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I launched NumPad v1 on here a few years ago, and back then it wasn't much more than a thin CodeMirror wrapper around the calculator engine I'd written. Now I've rewritten it as a PWA that supports multiple documents, persists them to IndexedDB, and has a syncing service for paying customers. Syncing is handled by Automerge[1] under the hood, which should make it relatively easy to get document sharing working too. [1] https://automerge.org/
2022 · numpad.io · its alternatives →
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How expensive are your meetings? Find out easily.
2019 · owllabs.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN! This post is not about useless meeting tips, nor about some new tool that drains remaining calendar hours. Like most of us, I’m very frustrated by the amount of time wasted by meetings. Why most of us here hate meetings is well described in PG’s essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html There is also a great solution that worked for YC: office hours. Ok, but how can this help a regular maker in a regular company? Most makers struggle with the meetings scheduled by their colleagues, so let’s focus just on the company internal meetings. What if every maker…
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See how much each meeting costs, directly in Google Cal
2023 · ramp.com · its alternatives →
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Find out how much your meetings pay down to the second!
2018 · its alternatives →
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Hi all, just posting an update to my previous Show HN, where I announced a side-project I worked on which was a (web version) of a multi-user, notepad style calculator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997 After a couple of user requests (and having a good think about it) I decided to migrate the web UI to create a Mac and Windows desktop app. After using it a little bit, I feel this is a much better experience than the webapp, and reduces a lot of the friction if I wanted to run a few small calculations. You can find the download links below:…
2022 · figr.app · its alternatives →
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Estimate your meeting costs with a built-in cost calculator
2023 · fellow.ai · its alternatives →
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A new calculator software cannot really bring attention (https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/) However, I wrote a full article explaining why I had to build something "new" that does not behave like usual desktop calculator softwares : TL;DR All "small" calculator softwares I know share the same design flaws. And the GUI is not the only stumbling block in their poor efficiency. Handling correctly numerical approximations - expected or not - is crucial to trust the results. It is usually not done in lightweight tools. It should. So I prove that if I could do it, OS manufacturers…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Clockwise is a meeting cost calculator designed to encourage more efficient meetings. - syncfast/clockwise
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quick background: I used to code. Studied it in school, wrote some projects, but eventually convinced myself I wasn't cut out for it. Too slow, too many bugs, imposter syndrome — the usual story. So I pivoted, ended up as an investment associate at an early-stage angel fund, and haven't written real code in years. Fast forward to now. I'm a Buffett nerd — big believer in compound interest as a mental model for life. I run compound interest calculations constantly. Not because I need to, but because watching numbers grow over 30-40 years keeps me patient when markets get wild. It's basically…
Jan 2026 · calquio.com · its alternatives →
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How Buffer, Figma, Shopify, Webflow & more run team meetings
2020 · fellow.ai · its alternatives →
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2016 · meetingcalculator.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · timewise.how · its alternatives →
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I’ve always found that online calculators tend to have bad UIs, especially on mobile. Most of the calculator websites I’ve come across use outdated and inconvenient ways of inputting data, or they format the results in confusing ways. I’ve noticed that fraction calculators (especially mixed fractions) are terrible to use, even on desktop. I haven’t built one of those yet, but it’s something I’m planning to tackle soon. This is a project I’ve always wanted to work on, but I’m relatively new to this space. So far, I’ve created a collection of simple calculators focused on math and finance. I’d…
2025 · its alternatives →
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