RealCosts

Overview

RealCosts reframes prices as time. Set your hourly wage once, then hover any price on any page to see it outlined with a floating badge next to it: ≈ 4.5 Hours of Work.

What it does

• Finds every price — plain price text and prices split across separate elements, whether that's one price on a product page or dozens on a listing page
• Hover the whole product — the hover area grows to cover the entire product card, image and title included, so on a listing page hovering anywhere on a tile shows its badge
• Never touches the page's design — the badge floats outside the site's own layout and follows the price as you scroll
• Keeps up with dynamic pages — infinite scroll, single-page navigation, and price updates are picked up as they happen
• Settings — an hourly rate or a salary calculator, hours-and-minutes or decimal display, currency symbol, and a minimum price so pocket change doesn't get badged, all synced across your devices

How it's built

A Manifest V3 extension in plain JavaScript that runs on both Chrome and Firefox from the same manifest, with no background script.

Status

Version 1 runs on desktop browsers. Next on the roadmap: per-site allow and block lists, multiple currencies at once, and a phone app that reuses the same wage-conversion logic.