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Show HN: An app to find how much time you waste in meetings

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Two of my friends struggled with something that most of us do - trying to be more productive at work. One of them did an analysis of the meetings and calendar manually for a few months and surprise surprise (not really!) there was a clear corelation between where he spent his time and what output came out.

And the result of this exercise is Timewise.

Timewise can help you do some stuff like:

Exhaustive analysis of calendar See how you compare with peers No extra logging required 100% privacy first

Not all meetings are a waste though. Meetings get a bad rap, but a meeting where the result means you don’t waste 2 days coding the wrong thing is a very productive meeting. I do think meetings should be minimal and efficient though and not just talking shops. 3 person meetings are the sweet spot for that. 10 person team meetings are dreadful, but ok if it’s just a quick status report sort of thing.

I quite agree - in hindsight the title was a bit click-baity :D But I think time in meetings is something that needs more exposure and reviews.

Not all meetings are bad, but every minute spent in unknown areas is bad. I work deeply in tech startups and I was shocked to see that some of my earliest beta users had 80%+ meeting time..

Of course they were shocked too :D

Decent idea, I like it. Do you have alerts that can be triggered if someone is spending too much time in meetings? At the time of scheduling perhaps?

A good feature would be a team comparison view option.

Can it sync with mobile/desktop/email calendars?

Hi @missmadeleine

The trigger sounds like a great idea! We built this over the weekends and are now compiling feedback from the earliest set of users to improve it further!

Regarding the sync -- Yes, it syncs directly with one email ID associated to your google calendar and then syncs events created across devices/sources etc

Looks like it's down at the moment? Getting an nginx 502.

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