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Show HN: "LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings (lawyerclock.com)

18 points by jaredstenquist ↗ HN
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!

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ashishg
very funny ahha. Cool project.
jaredstenquist
Thanks! 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.
zach
Flying money bags! It must have flying money bags!
phrotoma
Or various commodoties or stocks perhaps? "You've just spent two barrels of oil, or one share of google stock."
hdctambien
Very 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
Great point. I think that would be a good addition. For now you can adjust the slider in real time.
jsavimbi
That got a chuckle. You can also substitute lawyer for consultant.
shii
Wasn't there a site like this, but for just meetings in general?
jaredstenquist
Not that I've seen before, though I admittedly didn't spend a lot of time researching this.
AjithAntony
Yeah 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://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/

shii
Your second link from Github is it. Thanks.
jaredstenquist
Good find. Ironically, I've never seen that before. Unfortunately not the first idea i've had that was already created :)
[dead] cancelbubble
I did this 3 years ago, 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/ 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...