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Comment by ryanSrich | Hacker News Reader

You really can’t say if they can justify it or not. Only they can. If I can save 15 minutes per day, that would more than pay for $12/month. Time is your most valuable asset.

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If you are a 3-person SaaS startup and your team is spending 15+ minutes a day just scheduling meetings among themselves, and need additional software just to manage that process, I'd say that's a problem in itself.

If that's internal meetings, absolutely, that's an issue. But I think a company that size that's trying to iterate on their offering should be booking a lot of meetings to talk with customers and potential customers, and that could easily take 15 mins a day in my experience.

The tool in question is (mainly) for scheduling meetings with third parties.

Someone said this in a comment above, but in a 3-person SaaS, everyone works sales. It's likely they're scheduling a huge number of meetings with external folks.

I have 0 meetings with anyone that works with me. We’ve essentially eliminated all internal meetings. At least scheduled recurring ones.

I do, however, have roughly 10 meetings per week. These are with potential clients, existing clients (for feedback), external consultants (legal), investors, etc.

We are a startup, and as such, we all wear 10 different hats. Which means doing sales, admin, business, etc.

Pedantically: Time is not your most valuable asset.

Time is a flow not a stock. It is only worth what you get paid for it.

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