A side project built in spare time,
to show what meetings actually cost
MeetMeter wasn’t born in a startup or a pitch deck. It came from noticing that team time has a real price, and almost no one thinks about it before scheduling a meeting.
José Enrique González García
Web developer
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Alicante, Spain
I’ve been doing web development for 6 years. MeetMeter is my first project aimed at an international audience, built in my spare time alongside work and family. There’s no team behind this, no investors, no roadmap set in stone. Just curiosity to see if something I built for my own needs turns out to be useful for someone else.
Alicante, Spain
6 years in web dev
Dad × 2
Hobby project · free
Why this exists
In many teams — especially in agile environments — meetings are the first thing that gets scheduled and the last thing that gets questioned. A daily that runs 40 minutes with 8 people, a refinement session without an agenda that spirals out of control, a retrospective that turns into a coffee chat. The cost is there, but it’s invisible.
MeetMeter puts that number on screen, in real time. Not as a judge, but as a reference. Because sometimes the meeting is worth every cent — and sometimes it helps you realise a message would have been enough.
Nothing is saved to any server. Your history stays in your browser. No sign-up required. Ever.
Who it’s for
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Scrum Masters & facilitators |
To have a concrete number before someone asks why that ceremony ran so long. And to defend it when it was actually worth it.
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Engineering managers |
To get a quick sense of how much team time goes into synchronisation each week, and whether that matches what the team actually needs.
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Teams trying to improve |
Any team that feels like there are too many meetings but can’t quite articulate it. MeetMeter gives you the data — the conversation is yours to have.
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Those who present in meetings |
With presentation mode, you can show the counter without revealing configured rates. Useful when you don’t want to expose salaries but still want to spark reflection.
How it’s built
MeetMeter lives in the browser. No database, no login, nothing sitting on a server waiting for your data. Everything you record stays on your device, in localStorage, and you can delete it whenever you want.
I built it with what I had at hand. No trendy frameworks, no dependencies that might be abandoned tomorrow. It’s fast because it doesn’t do anything it doesn’t need to. If user growth makes it worth rethinking, I’ll do that — but only with real demand in front of me.
Where we are
The origin
The idea: see the cost in real time
A prototype to visualise what a meeting costs while it’s happening. Nothing more.
First public version
Counter, roles and zone barometer
Rate-based profile setup, real-time counter and duration traffic light. Published to see what would happen.
Right now
History, analytics and presentation mode
Local history with weekly and monthly charts, day-of-week trend analysis, cost by meeting category, monthly budget tracking, and presentation mode to hide configured rates.
If traffic justifies it
What comes next is up to you
No invented features to sell. What comes next will be decided by what people actually use and miss.
If you run meetings, this is for you
No sign-up. No data on any server. Set your rates, add participants, and hit play.