Show HN: Calculating prices in work hours, not dollars
9 adrianacostadev 4 3/27/2025, 12:36:53 AM timeforprice.com ↗
Ever looked at a price tag and thought, How many hours do I need to work for this? Instead of just seeing numbers, what if you could instantly see the cost in terms of your time?
That’s why I built Time for Price — a simple browser extension that converts prices into work hours based on your income. Whether you're shopping online or budgeting, it helps you make decisions with time in mind, not just money.
Just enter your hourly wage, and the extension automatically overlays the converted value on any product page. No more impulse buys—just instant, clear insight into what something really costs you.
We’re launching soon! Join the waitlist at https://www.timeforprice.com/ to get early access.
(Why) Would someone give you their amazon login (email), the list of products they browse/looking for, the cost of those products, do you monitor if we bought it or not, etc?
Your example is an iphone 15 case (time for an ad to replace to iphone 16!!! no?).
Also-1, (example) I was browsing for (ahem) vibrators, 3m charging USB cables for those vibrators, vitamin D, naughty underwear, ... (should I go on?)
Also-2, planning to release it for other browsers? (I use firefox) :)
EDIT: having gone through my "The Minimalists" and "KonMari" journey some years back, it is a great idea! I hope people use this to 'wake the f.. up' and realize that buyer's remorse costs them "hours of their life", not just "money".
Simply looks for the tab you are on, and the tool search for specific class names to for the element that represents the price, for example: amazon uses the class name called: a-price. If on the page the tools finds that class, then it gets the value for it and that's where the magic happens.
At the end of the day, IF I end up collecting any data, it would be the amount purchases (the number, $14.99, etc.) for reports for the users, etc., nothing in the natures of the user's username, password, items purchased etc., and no, I'm not selling that data.
I hope this answers your questions. :)
[1]: https://www.timeforprice.com/img/img1.png
EDIT: Ah, it's a very slow moving carousel that doesn't look like a carousel, this is the before image.