Show HN: Robin – OpenTable for your office
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After working for the past 6 months in an office with 4 shared conference rooms and around 20 people, I can say with 100% confidence this pricing would have been approved pretty much instantly.
The conference room shuffle was a headache every single day and caused constant distraction and productivity loss. I know plenty of other people at other companies who have reported the same issues with their conference rooms. Hell, even in the Facebook HQ when I've gone in for meetings has had this problem (though their system is already pretty decent from what I can tell).
If you've felt this pain (regardless of how first world it may seem), I think you'd agree.
Personally I'd rather just never have meetings, but that's not always an option =)
I guess the reason our industry has gone this way is simply because we know we can get more money from larger companies. That's why you always see these arbitrary limits that correspond in no way whatsoever to the actual cost or value of the product being sold.
Eventboard is one of a bunch that do tablet and analytics. They take a different approach on a few things, we build heavily for mobile and employee-facing apps and not just facilities managers.
https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca...
Most offices are designed with 1 conference room per 10-20 employees. If you have 15 conference rooms you probably have well over 100 employees and many millions in payroll. Those people presumably have many meetings, and the cost of not being able to get their job done is measurable.
Conference rooms can be between 200-300 sq feet, so if you have a 15 of them you're looking at several thousand sq ft on your lease. Depending on where you are in the world, that's probably around $10K/month or so in real estate.
The effective rate is about $17/month/room, which in most cases is tiny compared to the cost of mismanaging office space and productive time above.
We have 300 employees in this particular location. We bought an alternative solution for $12k with a licence for up to 75 rooms, for a one-time fee.
Can someone recommend a good tablet setup for this to maybe bring the price of your total conference room "system" down?
(In a perfect world, resulting in reduced priority for their requests)
Some customers have been 3D printing their own mounts, which is pretty awesome.
- think doctor / dentist - think directory to an office building - a doorbell with video conferencing - why not just put a menu on every table in every restaurant.