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Daniele Dapuzzo
Daniele Dapuzzo

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How Many Hours Did That Cost You? A Chrome Extension That Shows the True Price of Online Shopping

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Scrolling through e-commerces products, clicking “Buy Now,” or adding yet another gadget to your cart feels harmless, until you realize how much work went into earning that money. What if instead of just seeing 39.99, you saw 6.5 hours of work? That’s exactly what the Work Hours Price Converter Chrome extension does.

This open-source tool flips the way we think about online shopping: it converts prices into the number of work hours needed to earn them, based on your personal hourly wage. Suddenly, every product isn’t just a price—it’s time out of your life.

Why This Matters

We often underestimate the real cost of what we buy. Knowing the hours you’re effectively trading for a product can help you:

  • Decide if it’s really worth it
  • Prioritize what truly matters
  • Avoid mindless spending

Money isn’t just numbers, it’s your time. And your time is finite.

How It Works

  1. Install the Extension: Available on the Chrome Web Store.
  2. Set Your Income: Enter your monthly or hourly net income and the number of working days.
  3. Browse Online Shops: Prices automatically appear in work hours alongside the original amount.

That’s it. Every time you shop, you get an instant reality check: the hours you’ve worked to earn that product are now front and center.

Key Features

  • Instant Conversion: See work hours alongside prices, automatically.
  • Fully Personalized: Enter your monthly or hourly net income and the number of working days along the number of daily working hours.
  • Spend Smarter: Avoid purchases that aren’t worth your time.
  • Future Expansion: More stores will be supported soon.

Check out the project on GitHub or install it directly from the Chrome Web Store and see how it works for yourself.

Contributing & Sharing

This project is open-source, so you can:

  • Share it with friends and colleagues
  • Report issues or submit pull requests on GitHub

If you love it, leaving a Chrome Web Store review helps others discover it too.

Shopping suddenly becomes less about impulse and more about intention. Start seeing your money, and your time, in a whole new way. ⏳💸

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