Meeting Stats
Productivity
meeting analytics
SHOW HN2018
127points
86comments
#328of 2,155 in 2018
Top 16%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, well presented calendar stats
From 3 comments
Very well done, I always wanted to build a similar product. But all of those tools are always missing the most important feature from my POV: company wide statistics on meetings:…
vvoyer on HNThis is the kind of tool I've been tossing up making myself. Such a great job! Quick, well presented. But, I wish I could correct the statistics. * I haven't had this email for a…
screaminghawk on HNI would have loved to have this in my previous job. I estimate I was in meetings about 20 hours per week, of which 8 hours were actually useful. Glad I'm not in that situation…
binarymax on HN
Good idea for meeting overload
From 2 comments
Nice! Meeting hell is a fantastic problem to take on. In the same vein, please consider generating stats for slack and other chat app usage as well. Would be very valuable to…
amirathi on HNThis is hilarious. Maybe make a portal for this that just includes a live counter for value lost based on average salaries x people in the room = $$ being spent. That would be a…
o_____________o on HN
Objections
Requires access to calendar data, a privacy concern
From 3 comments
This is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I like how they describe their usage and that they auto remove access. But even if I believe them,…
prepend on HNThis is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I know everything has to be an online web "app" these days, but the privacy concerns could be…
reaperducer on HNEven with the promise that they'll delete the data after, it doesn't seem like a reasonable value exchange. I would assume that meta-data and derived data is still going to be…
dotBen on HN
GDPR cookie popup handling problems
From 3 comments
If you really care about our privacy that much, please configure the GDPR popup in a way[0] that let your EU visitors to say that they are not allowing third party usage of their…
Signez on HNFYI: the button has only I Accept and Customize options; that may violate the GDPR by not providing a No option. When you click Customize, and manually turn off all options, the…
vintagedave on HNI mean if they can't even comply with GDPR (that awful popup) they obviously don't respect their users data to start.
tjoff on HN
Default salary assumption too low and not editable
From 2 comments
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…
igetspam on HNThis is the kind of tool I've been tossing up making myself. Such a great job! Quick, well presented. But, I wish I could correct the statistics. * I haven't had this email for a…
screaminghawk on HN
Tool hangs for over an hour
From 1 comment
Tried it out because this looks really useful however it hangs forever. >1hr I let it spin. Not sure exactly what happened.
xfactor973 on HN
Requests
Compute stats client-side or from uploaded calendar export
From 2 comments
Side note, they could definitely enhance the tool by computing most of the data client side using a google calendar export. So nothing would ever go to their servers:…
vvoyer on HNCan you add an ability for me to upload a calendar file that I scrub out everything I don’t want you to have temporary access to?
prepend on HN
Exclude heads-down or focus blocks
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I can't really use it though, since I often schedule "heads-down" sessions for myself (ironically because of meeting overload). I hope a future version allows me…
redhale on HN
Company-wide meeting statistics
From 1 comment
Very well done, I always wanted to build a similar product. But all of those tools are always missing the most important feature from my POV: company wide statistics on meetings:…
vvoyer on HN
Editable salary and hours
From 2 comments
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…
igetspam on HNThis is the kind of tool I've been tossing up making myself. Such a great job! Quick, well presented. But, I wish I could correct the statistics. * I haven't had this email for a…
screaminghawk on HN
Questions
How is a meeting defined
From 1 comment
This looks cool. Just wondering, how do you define a meeting? Is it any calendar entry with multiple attendees?
osrec on HN
How to measure meeting productivity
From 1 comment
Very interesting. Any ideas on how to quantify productivity of the meetings? Insights into efficiency of a meeting would be helpful as well.
double0jimb0 on HN
Alternatives named
OrgVue
From 1 comment
This is basically what OrgVue does.
Jb6 on HN
MyAnalytics in Office
From 1 comment
Very cool -- I love the focus and the amount of information you can glean from calendar analysis. On this topic, since I joined Microsoft this summer, one of the off-the-shelf…
JoshMandel on HN
RescueTime
From 1 comment
This was (originally) exactly why we created RescueTime (YC08 - and still growing!). We'd sold a tiny/new startup that we'd created IN ALASKA to a large/overfunded startup…
webwright on HN