Upgrade check

Is the smart part actually worth it?

A smarter device is only an upgrade if the attention it saves is worth more to you than the extra money, subscriptions and complexity it adds.

Enter your assumptions

New device price (€)

Resale / trade-in value (€)

Expected ownership (years)

Extra subscription/service per year (€)

Human attention with current setup (hours/year)

Expected human attention with new device (hours/year)

What is one hour of your free time worth to you? (€)

This is personal, not a wage rate. Use whatever makes an hour of avoided chore time meaningful to you.

The hardest input is “new human attention”. Useworthy’s long-term goal is to replace guesses with real owner intervention data.

Your upgrade economics

—net upfront upgrade cost

—human attention saved per year

—cost per human hour saved over ownership

—time-value break-even

—annualized ownership premium

Enter your assumptions.

Use this as a sanity check, not a product recommendation.

It does not estimate electricity, financing, lawn quality, safety or resale beyond what you enter. Its purpose is to expose the key question: how much human attention must disappear before the upgrade premium makes sense?