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What do repeat questions cost you?

Five numbers about your team. See the hours a year you spend answering the same things again, and what writing them down once could give back.

Your team, contractors, co-founders.

Things you have answered before.

min

Include getting back to what you were doing.

per hour

Any currency. Use what you would pay someone senior.

%

Rules and facts, not judgment calls.

You spend about

110

hours a year answering repeat questions

Questions a week
24
Hours a week
2.4
Work days a year
13.8
Worth a year
6,624

Writing down the 60% you said you could would give back about 66 hours a year, worth 3,974.

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How the numbers work

Repeat questions a week are your team size times the repeat questions each person asks you. Each one costs the minutes you type in, which should include getting back into what you were doing before. A year is counted as 46 working weeks, and a work day as 8 hours.

The last slider is your own guess: how many of those questions already have an answer you could write down once, such as a refund rule, a price limit or who approves what. Questions that need your judgment each time stay with you, and they should.

What to do with the result

For one week, note every question your team asks you. Pick the ten that came up most and write each answer once, with the date you confirmed it and who owns it. Our guide how to stop answering the same questions walks through it, and the founder bottleneck quiz shows where else the startup waits on you.

Common questions

  • Repeat questions a week are your team size times the repeat questions each person asks you. Each one costs the minutes you enter, which should include getting back into what you were doing. A year is counted as 46 working weeks.

  • No. It runs in your browser. We only count that someone used it, never the numbers you typed.

  • No. Only the ones that are rules or facts, such as a refund rule, a price limit or who approves what. Questions that need your judgment each time stay with you, and they should.

  • Note every question your team asks you for one week, pick the ten that came up most, and write each answer once with the date and who owns it.