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…
The Meeting Waste Calculator launched on June 27, 2025 with 14 votes, #1,181 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Calculate how much meeting waste is costing your company. Spoiler: It's more than your CFO's espresso machine ☕
Calculate how much meeting waste is costing your company. Spoiler: It's more than your CFO's espresso machine.
Calculate how much meetings are costing your company. Spoiler: It's more than your CFO's espressofrom gitdigest.ai
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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