An app that turns any price into hours of your life ⏳
Hey IHers 👋
I just launched Price of Time — an Android app built around one stubborn idea:
Money is an abstraction. Time isn't.
When you see a $1,200 gadget, your brain shrugs. But when the app tells you "that's 47 hours of your life", something clicks — and you negotiate with yourself very differently.
How it works:
- Scan or type a price → it instantly shows the cost in work hours / days of your life, based on your real income
- Decide on the spot: Buy, Save, or Postpone
- Every purchase you skip feeds your savings stats and your goals (e.g. "save $2,000 toward a car")
- Achievements + monthly streaks to keep the habit alive
Under the hood (for the builders here):
- Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Room + Firebase, offline-first sync
- One single source of truth for all money↔time math (learned that the hard way after 4 diverging copies 😅)
- 25 languages, multi-currency
- Free vs Premium (extended history, unlimited goals, no ads, Excel export)
It's live on Google Play now — would love some real downloads and brutal feedback:
👉 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.priceoftime
Two things I'd genuinely love your take on:
- Does the "price → hours of life" framing actually change how you'd spend?
- What would make you keep it past week one?
Happy to share the tech behind anything. Thanks for reading 🙏
One thing I'd be careful with:
A different framing can sometimes change a decision while leaving the underlying preference exactly where it was.
Those can look surprisingly similar from the outside.
That's the part I'd be most curious about here.