App Engine

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with App Engine, 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 8 complaints

Can't use the latest Node version because the standard environment doesn't support it yet2022-11-05
Deploys take about 10 minutes after each container source change2018-10-08
Instance usage is opaque and very hard to tune, mostly trial and error2018-07-12
Valuable content sits below the fold, so results are hard to reach2015-07-08
Users must find an unfixed bug, apply a patch manually, and repeat after each update2015-05-06
Estimate includes retired always-on cost, so users must manually subtract it2011-09-09
Datastore is hard to learn and requires meticulous upfront data access planning2010-08-19
Workarounds for datastore time limits are awful to debug and unpredictable2010-05-31