Products · Broad category
AI apps
Raised as a usability problem by 23 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 21 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with AI apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 23 complaints
- AI sites are hard to read, possibly due to poor contrast2026-10-09
- Zooming in on a phone is misread as an answer choice2026-09-20
- Extremely thin font and layout make the article hard to parse2026-08-24
- Users are confused that the website mimics the app UI and must use localhost2026-03-21
- Four popup dialogs block access to the site, so the commenter gave up2026-02-03
- Output quality is unpredictable; effort doesn't reliably produce usable results2026-01-13
- Cannot access the product because it requires WhatsApp, which the commenter lacks2025-11-05
- Generated UIs have poor margins, inconsistent layout, and low-contrast color choices2025-03-12
- Page stuck on loading for a minute with no sign it would finish2025-02-13
- Commenter found the interface too confusing to figure out quickly and left2024-11-14
- Tile view with pictures is less useful than a sortable, filterable list2024-08-29
- Back button is broken on the sign-in page in Firefox on Android2024-05-14
- Signup page breaks the back button, forcing the user to close the window2024-05-14
- No feedback after clicking, so user clicks repeatedly and gets duplicate responses2024-05-13
- Must create an account before seeing any results after uploading2024-04-25
- Product page takes a while to load after clicking2024-04-10
- Current AI role-play tools would need a lot of UX and UI work to be usable2023-12-12
- Website doesn't say which time zone the 8am daily update uses2023-07-31
- Users feel lost because the bot only answers questions and doesn't guide them2023-06-08
- Slow response after recording makes it impractical for speaking practice2023-06-07
- Limits input to about 40 characters, forces canned choices, and wipes history after a few turns2023-01-23
- Install fails with version errors and CUDA is not detected, forcing a workaround in Docker2019-12-16
- Second section shows only a grey background, nothing visible loads there2018-04-12