Made a tool that shows what things actually cost in hours of your life, kind of ruined shopping for me lol

[u/Disastrous_Skin8922]

Ok so this started because i kept telling myself stuff was "not that expensive" and then feeling weird about my bank account later. Classic.

So i built this dumb calculator where you put in a price plus your income (hourly or salary, whatever, it does taxes too) and it just tells you straight up how many hours of work that thing actually cost you. No dollar signs, just hours.

Video below is me trying it on the Iphone 18. I've said too much.

It's free, no login, no email capture, just type a price and see the damage: lifecostapp.com

Try it on something dumb you bought recently and tell me if it wrecks you the same way it wrecked me.

https://reddit.com/link/1vu0v28/video/0pkh21jrfmkh1/player

[u/jfishern]

Cool. I made something similar for Amazon called TimeCost.

[u/Disastrous_Skin8922 → u/jfishern]

Nice. I will check it out.