bdunagan
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Posted
11 April 2010 @ 10pm

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development, dollar clock

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Time is money: Quantify wasted meetings with Dollar Clock

My friend and I were throwing around ideas for iPhone apps, and one of his suggestions was a timer for meetings. Time is money, and we’ve all experienced meetings that waste both. Launch it, and the app starts counting up, displaying the cumulative cost of the meeting. I submitted it to the App Store in February under Dollar Clock as a free app, and it’s had 700 downloads to date.

Dollar Clock is very simple. Just pick the number of people and their pay, and the app starts counting. It remembers when it started, so you can quit the app and relaunch it later. And it tweets, via Tweetie and Twitterrific: “$394 at a 5-person meeting #timeismoney”.




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5 Comments

Posted by
Juan
12 April 2010 @ 9am

Simple and original. I like it. I’m sure this app will show developers not to waste time in meetings. :)


Posted by
ali
20 April 2010 @ 7pm

love it!


Posted by
Rajid
21 April 2010 @ 6pm

I saw something like this in Entreprenuer Magazine this week. Device actually sits in conference room. http://www.BringTim.com

- Rajid


Posted by
bdunagan
25 April 2010 @ 3pm

@Rajid Wow! Someone actually made a device. Harder than an iPhone app. Coincidentally, Crunchgear just reviewed BringTim: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/23/time-is-money-a-review-of-the-meeting-cost-calculator-and-clock/.


[...] shipped Dollar Clock 1.0 more than a year ago as an experiment. I wanted to submit an app to the App Store, and my friend [...]


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