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Show teams a live ticker of what each meeting is costing.

In short: an AI-agent-run business you oversee about an hour a week. Tools cost $30–$150/mo, agent setup is intermediate, and our estimate is 50 teams × $19 = $950/mo.

How it makes money: Charge teams $19/mo for a live on-screen ticker of what each meeting costs.

Agent setup: Intermediate · Connects several tools (Lovable, Supabase) with payments and simple data. How we rate this

Found on Reddit in r/SideProject (1 thread).

🔥 1 posts this week · 0 likes

Based on u/UnicornAdoption on Reddit (opens in new tab)

Where this came from (Reddit)

Teams keep long meetings because nobody sees the dollar cost in the room.

The threads (in our words)

Reddit blocks automated reads, so we couldn’t record upvote or comment counts. The business below is our own design inspired by these threads.

Who it’s for

Managers, founders and ops leads who want fewer, shorter meetings.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Start with one niche or customer type, then expand.
  • Ask your first 10 customers what they would pay before you build more.
  • Keep a human check on anything sent in a customer’s name.

Step by step

  1. Build a simple web ticker with Lovable: invitees, optional salary bands or a default loaded cost, and a big running total.
  2. Add calendar connect so it starts when the meeting does and a shareable link for the room screen.
  3. Offer a free single-meeting mode and a team plan through Stripe.
  4. Post short demos on X and LinkedIn showing a 45-minute meeting’s cost.
  5. Have an agent write SEO pages for “meeting cost calculator” style searches.
  6. Review anonymized usage weekly and improve defaults.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Write copy for a meeting cost ticker landing page: headline, 3 bullets on why the number should be visible, and a privacy note that salaries stay on the customer’s side.

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Time
1–3 hoursOur estimate

Your autonomous stack

Autonomy: Workflows run on schedules; the agent alerts you when one fails. Your part: Weekly: check failed runs and new client requests (about 1 hour).

Every layer an agent-run business needs, in order. Prices are public list prices, checked Oct 16, 2026.

  1. Agent (the brain): Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot runs the business day to day: writes, answers, decides small things and reports to you. Claude Code or Codex are alternatives.
  2. Build and hosting: Lovable (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Pro $25/mo), Supabase database (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Pro from $25/mo). The product or service your customers use.
  3. Payments: Stripe payments (opens in new tab) (No monthly fee · 2.9% + 30¢ per card payment). Automatic checkout and receipts. Other options: PayPal Checkout (3.49% + 49¢) or Lemon Squeezy (5% + 50¢, handles sales tax).
  4. Customer acquisition: Buffer (scheduled X posts) (opens in new tab) (Free plan (3 channels, 10 queued posts each) · Essentials $5/mo per channel, billed yearly), beehiiv newsletter (opens in new tab) (Free up to 2,500 subscribers), Apollo (find business emails) (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Basic $65/mo). Agent-written SEO pages, scheduled X posts and a weekly newsletter, plus cold email to businesses that follow CAN-SPAM/GDPR (real sender, opt-out link, no bought consumer lists).
  5. Delivery: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). A Grok Bot routine delivers the product or result as soon as someone pays.
  6. Support: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot answers the support inbox; anything unclear is flagged for you.
  7. Monitoring and schedule: Grok Bot (agent + scheduled routines) (opens in new tab) (Included with The X Subscription Premium $30/mo (Super $100/mo for more usage; Plus $8 does not include Grok Bot)). Grok Bot scheduled routines run each day: send, check for failures, alert you if something breaks.
  8. Analytics: Google Analytics (opens in new tab) (Free). Tracks visits, signups and sales so the agent can report what works.
  9. Human checkpoint: Weekly: check failed runs and new client requests (about 1 hour).
  10. Price: charge $19 per team (monthly team plan). Offer the first 3 customers a founding price for honest feedback.
Monthly cost$30–$150/monthFree tiers → paid plans of the tools above. Card fees come out of each sale.
What you could earn · EstimateEstimate: 50 teams × $19 = $950/moOur estimate, not a fact or a promise. It’s simple math if you land these customers at this price.
Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

A small app that multiplies who’s in the call by their loaded hourly cost and shows the running total on screen so groups cut meetings short. We designed this business from real Reddit threads; it is an idea for you to build, not a description of the posters’ businesses.

How it went

Found on Reddit in r/SideProject (1 thread). Upvote and comment counts weren’t retrievable, so none are shown. On X, 1 posts matched our search for this idea in the 7 days to 2026-10-18.

Worth knowing

Never require exact salaries; use bands or a company default, and say clearly it is an estimate for awareness, not payroll.

Difficulty
BeginnerOur rating
Time to build
Not reportedOur estimate
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
Engagement
No public countThe source shows no number
X buzz
2.1 · 1 posts in 7 days0 likes, 0 reposts, 0 replies, 0 quotes on 1 top posts · fetched Oct 18, 2026 · query: ("meeting cost" OR "cost of meetings" OR "meetings cost" OR "meeting tax") (tool OR app OR ticker OR calculator OR dashboard) -is:retweet lang:en

Posted · Added Oct 18, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  1. Build a simple web ticker with Lovable: invitees, optional salary bands or a default loaded cost, and a big running total.
  2. Add calendar connect so it starts when the meeting does and a shareable link for the room screen.
  3. Offer a free single-meeting mode and a team plan through Stripe.
  4. Post short demos on X and LinkedIn showing a 45-minute meeting’s cost.
  5. Have an agent write SEO pages for “meeting cost calculator” style searches.
  6. Review anonymized usage weekly and improve defaults.

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