A remote-controlled countdown timer for speakers and show callers
2 founders, no employees
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Stagetimer is stagetimer.io — a remotely controlled full-screen countdown timer: one device displays a full-screen countdown for the speaker on stage, while you control it from a browser on a different device, adding or subtracting time, pausing, and jumping between segments. The video's host reacts the way most people do at first: how is this different from setting a 45-minute timer on my iPhone? Why does it make money? The answer is the cost of getting the timing wrong. If your egg timer doesn't go off, the egg is ruined — not a big deal, and you'd never pay for that. But if it's a TED talk — and TED is a company, with thousands of people in the room and hundreds of thousands watching online — a speaker running over wrecks the live experience and hurts the online distribution. That's a business incident. The moment you put the most mundane function imaginable, timing, into a commercial context where errors are costly, it goes from a free toy to a professional necessity. When Starter Story interviewed founder Lucas in 2023, the business was doing about $8,000/mo; in this video it's at $25,000/mo, with two founders and zero employees.
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: The main Starter Story channel interviewed founder Lucas: about $8,000/mo back in 2023, up to $25,000/mo at the time of this video, with two founders and zero employees. Numbers are as relayed in the video. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator — unaudited.