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Work · September 25, 2018

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Meetter – Reduce time wasted by meetings

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…

Meetter – Reduce time wasted by meetings launched on September 25, 2018 with 49 votes, #742 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Meetter is a tool designed to reduce wasted time on internal company meetings by implementing office hours for makers and developers. Rather than scattered meetings throughout the week, the system consolidates meeting times so makers can maintain focused work blocks, similar to the office hours model that worked for Y Combinator. The tool helps technical teams and managers coordinate meetings more efficiently while protecting uninterrupted work time for those who need it.

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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…

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