Wasteclock for Slack
A tool that shows the live dollar cost of a Slack meeting
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Long, costly meetings usually go unnoticed. Wasteclock is a Slack app designed to fix that by showing the live dollar cost of your meeting in real time. How it works: Type /wasteclock Set headcount + average hourly rate Track the ticker live, pause/reset, and share the total. Try it free for 14 days, then $19/mo flat per workspace. We also have a $2.99 standalone mobile app for quick, single-meeting tracking!
PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: online calculation tools · 320 launches, 42 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Slack
- Messaging
- Meetings
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Could you build this?
Yes A simple Slack integration using Bolt.js that tracks elapsed time via standard slash commands and calculates dollar burn based on user count and input hourly rate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 352 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 353 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
- The Meeting Ticker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MeetingLeak · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- WorkClockCalc · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lazy Cent · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Zero-Waste Meetings · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hashoff · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ExpenseHut · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MyneWallet · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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