An app for the people who schedule the meeting.

MeetingBurn is a small studio in Noida building the kind of sharp, narrow tools we actually want to use ourselves. Goldhour is the first one we shipped. This is the story.

i.Where it started

The spreadsheet I had open when we started this project was real. A six-person team spread across Bengaluru, London and San Francisco, a recurring meeting that kept getting proposed at 2am Delhi time, and a column of =HOUR(A1-TIMEVALUE("5:30")) formulas that nobody on the team understood except the person who wrote them.

By the end of that call, I had three tabs open, a headache, and a note in the back of my notebook that said "someone should just paint the overlap."

Six months later, that note became Goldhour.

ii.What we built

Goldhour is narrow on purpose. It does one thing: it shows you the one hour — or two, or three, if you're lucky — where every city on your roster sits inside normal working hours at the same moment. The slots light up gold. You drag the time cursor until every bar is gold. You hit Copy. You paste it in Slack.

The whole thing runs in your browser. There is no account, no database, no team workspace to set up. Your roster lives in your own localStorage. If you close the tab and come back next Tuesday, it's waiting for you.

A small design principle. Every feature in Goldhour has to earn its place in the single HTML file that ships. If we can't fit it inside our budget of sub-500ms first paint and zero bloat, it doesn't ship. This is why you won't see a login page, a "free trial" banner, or a modal asking you to rate us.

iii.Who MeetingBurn is

MeetingBurn is the umbrella for the small toolkit we're building. We're a two-person shop, half in Noida and half in whichever coffee shop has the least broken wifi in a given week. We have day jobs and we build this at night, which means we ship slowly, but we also only ship the things we're actually proud of.

The thesis is simple: remote meetings got worse, not better, when the world went remote. The big calendar tools charge you $12 a month to send a link. The world clock in your laptop is buried five menus deep. Somebody on every distributed team is accidentally proposing meetings at 2am someone-else-time.

We want to build the small tools that fix one specific part of this, well. One at a time. No dashboards. No up-sells.

iv.What's next

A few more tools are in the oven under meetingburn.in:

Meeting Cost — paste a calendar invite, get the fully-loaded rupee (or dollar) cost of the meeting. Share the number in the invite description. We think it's going to end a lot of meetings.
Recurring Audit — point it at your Google Calendar and it flags the recurring meetings nobody has actually talked in for three months, then helps you gracefully kill them.
A quiet newsletter once a month with whatever we learned shipping the previous tool. No tips and tricks, no listicles.

If any of this sounds useful, you can tell us at hello@meetingburn.in. A human reads everything that comes to that inbox, usually within a day, sometimes within an hour, occasionally within a week if we're both on planes.

v.One more thing

Goldhour will always be free. If we ever build a Pro tier — saved rosters across devices, calendar sync, team sharing — the core planner you're using today will stay exactly as it is, no strings. That's the promise, and it's the whole reason we picked a brand name like MeetingBurn: we'd rather burn down a bad meeting than trap you in a pricing page.

— the MeetingBurn team