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Show HN: "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!
- ashishg 15y agovery funny ahha. Cool project.
- jaredstenquist 15y agoThanks! Let's get some ideas for V2. I'm considering showing things you could have bought with the money you spent. I.E., once the bill hits $1,500 it shows a Macbook burning up.
- hdctambien 15y agoVery nice. It could use a button to keep track of the "percentage of time spent on topic." Click the button when you go off topic, click it again when you get back on topic and the site calculates the exact percentage, instead of leaving me to guess.
- jaredstenquist 15y agoGreat point. I think that would be a good addition. For now you can adjust the slider in real time.
- jsavimbi 15y agoThat got a chuckle. You can also substitute lawyer for consultant.
- shii 15y agoWasn't there a site like this, but for just meetings in general?
- jaredstenquist 15y agoNot that I've seen before, though I admittedly didn't spend a lot of time researching this.
- AjithAntony 15y agoYeah the layout looked familiar, but i didn't find the one i remember. This is certainly the first one I've seen with a lawyer theme, and the "on-topic" ratio. Other google results: http://isthismeetingreallyworthit.com/ http://isthismeetingreallyworthit.com/ http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/ http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/
- shii 15y agoYour second link from Github is it. Thanks.
- jaredstenquist 15y agoGood find. Ironically, I've never seen that before. Unfortunately not the first idea i've had that was already created :)
- cancelbubble 15y agoI did this 3 years ago, http://meetingprice.com/ http://meetingprice.com/ I ripped the idea from a guy I used to work with. He had, I think it was some sort of Excel macro that he showed me in one meeting. I thought it was hilarious so the concept stayed with me. Then one day I decided to see if I could get a decent domain and then coded it up. If you have a webkit-enabled browser you can hit up my 10kapart submission at http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/89/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/89/ It's the same thing but has falling dollar signs. One of these days I'll upload that to the domain, but as you can see, I don't really care much about it...