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Life & fun · April 11, 2011

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"LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings

Hey everyone. I'm a founder of a Boston based, venture backed startup, unrelated this this link. One of my business partners and I coded this website DURING long and painful meetings with our attorneys as a way to pass the time. We racked up over $100k in legal bills through a couple fundraising and legal hurdles. This is the website that resulted from that time.<p>We'd love your feedback for version 2.0. Thanks!

"LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings launched on April 11, 2011 with 18 votes, #46 of 229 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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LawyerClock is a website that displays the cost of legal fees accumulating in real time during attorney meetings. Created by Boston-based founders who built it while sitting through expensive legal consultations during fundraising, it visualizes how quickly legal bills add up. The tool is designed for business owners and entrepreneurs who want a humorous way to track the financial impact of time spent with lawyers.

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