Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

OP here, happy to answer your questions! Most importantly:

We take privacy very seriously, none of your calendar data is stored, just tabulated, and as soon as we finish we remove the token so we can't access anything in the future. The ONLY thing we store is the tabulation and your email address (which is not made public) tied to that tabulation.

Yep, we are currently doing a ton of customer dev interviews for the paid version which is aimed at teams and/or the entire business. Part of what we are testing is spending 30 seconds at the end of each meeting to rate the meeting and using that to diagnose the specific dysfunction it had. We use that to learn about the specific dysfunctions inside teams, departments, and the entire organization. Then we fix that with software driven coaching, optional human coaching, and showing the damage to "makers" through analytics (and possibly peer pressure).

We also have some crazier ideas we are testing such as allowing teams/businesses to do things like: - Block entire days or blocks of time from allowing meetings. - Require an agenda/purpose to a meeting 24 hours ahead of time or killing the meeting. - Setting a max time for meetings and if someone makes one for over a threshold we split it into two meetings to change the psychology and trying to finish it quickly. - Emailing the creator of the meeting the real cost of inviting so many people and asking them to verify it has value to the organization. - Tools to allow management/teams to kill off meetings that don't meet their criteria. Such as killing off all recurring meetings that are not 1v1, or setting hard limits on what % of your time is spent in meetings per job title.

Basically a lot of ways to hard enforce good meeting culture... it might sound a bit draconian but I think we have all had the pain of being in a culture that doesn't know it has a meeting problem.

A lot of these are pretty drastic... not sure I'd want to commit to them without really talking it over with the team and getting all the stakeholders involved

Yep! We throw out anything over 8 hours long as well.

It'd be nice to be able to change the average salary. This is HN, which means many of us are in tech jobs and the tech sector. Using 60k/year doesn't really do it justice.

I like it though. If nothing else, it's sad fun.