Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Cash payments
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Cash payments, 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 9 complaints
- Found filing a more complicated tax situation kind of annoying to deal with2025-04-18
- Coins are annoying to carry, and paying requires fiddling to give and receive the correct change2023-07-24
- Useful button exists but policy forbids using it, so cashiers face write-ups2023-07-18
- Stores and rental scooters often refuse cash, making purchases and rides difficult without electronic payment2023-05-29
- Term "cash back" is confusing; unclear where the cash comes from2023-01-03
- Desktop tax sign-in forces a phone app download via QR code scan2022-04-18
- Login requires scanning a QR code from the mobile app, and missing forms are hard to find2022-03-29
- Switching between physical keypad and touchscreen mid-task is confusing and inconsistent2018-07-03
- Sign-up requires checking inbox instead of logging in automatically, which feels unsmooth2010-07-04