By hand
One pin at a time
Open the editor, place the photo, style the text, export, upload, repeat. Ten pins at five minutes each is 50 minutes a day — before you've written a single fresh title.
Calculator · 3 inputs · instant
What do hand-made pinsreally cost you?
Ten pins a day at five minutes each is 25 hours a month — at $20 an hour, that's $500 of your time spent nudging text boxes. Put in your own numbers and see what batching gives you back.
your hourly ratepins per dayminutes per pin30-day month
How much is your time worth per hour?
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How many pins do you want to pin each day?
How long does it take you to create a pin?
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Three inputs, one fixed assumption
No black box — here's the whole formula.
Your hand-made month: pins per day × 30 days × your minutes per pin. The batch month: same pins, same 30 days, at the calculator's built-in pace of 30 pins per 5 minutes — one-sixth of a minute each. Hours saved is the gap between the two, and dollars saved is those hours at your rate.
On the defaults — $20 an hour, 10 pins a day, 5 minutes per pin — the hand-made month is 1,500 minutes and the batch month is 50. That's about 24 hours and $483 back, every month. Slower design pace or higher rate? The number climbs fast: at 15 minutes per pin it roughly triples.
The dollar figure prices your time — it makes a fair comparison with pricing, where a month of Pin Generator costs a fraction of the production hours it replaces.
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The hours are production hours
The calculator prices the making. The thinking stays yours — and gets the reclaimed time.
Batched
30 pins in 5 minutes
Templates hold the design, imported products supply photos and links, and bulk creation does the assembly. That pace is the one the calculator banks on.
Reinvested
Where the hours go next
Keyword research, better products, the next blog post — the work that grows the account. The calculator hands you the hours; you choose the compounding.
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Turn the saved hours into a system
The batch pace comes from a workflow, and every piece of it is here: templates for the design, product imports for the raw material, the scheduler so publishing happens without you, and automations so next month's batch makes itself. Run your numbers above — then make the number real.
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Savings calculator FAQ
The inputs, the 30-in-5 assumption, and what the dollars mean.
What does the savings calculator measure?
The hours you spend producing pins by hand, and what those hours are worth at your rate. It compares your current pace against a batch workflow where 30 pins take about 5 minutes, over a 30-day month. It measures time — your traffic and sales stay yours to earn.
What are the three inputs?
What an hour of your time is worth in dollars, how many pins you want to publish per day, and how many minutes one hand-made pin takes you. That's it — the calculator does the rest.
Where does "30 pins in 5 minutes" come from?
It's the batch pace built into the calculator — with templates and bulk creation, 30 pins take about 5 minutes, or one-sixth of a minute per pin. Your three inputs are yours to change; this assumption is the fixed part of the model.
What do the default numbers show?
The form opens at $20 an hour, 10 pins a day, and 5 minutes per pin. On those numbers, hand-making a month of pins costs about 24 hours — roughly $483 of your time. Tune the inputs to your own pace and rate.
Does a big number here mean Pin Generator will grow my sales?
The number is the value of your production time — hours saved times your rate. What you do with the reclaimed hours, and how well the pins perform, is a separate story. This page is honest about being a time calculator.