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Existing tools and apps
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 16 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 Existing tools and 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 16 complaints
- Agents struggle to operate existing user interfaces by guessing where to click from screenshots2026-03-28
- The web UI was a pain to use under the author's conditions2025-08-22
- Existing automation solutions are cumbersome to build workflows with2025-08-15
- Dashboards are hard to copy or adjust; changes require clicking through a complex frontend2024-08-25
- Juggling 5-10 multilingual templates becomes a daily nightmare to manage2024-08-10
- Existing budgeting apps lack good UX and customizable transaction sorting and filtering2024-07-01
- Must mentally track which files were edited and opened on which devices before going offline2024-01-08
- Adding simple backend functionality requires jumping between many files2023-09-02
- Makes it difficult to discover high-quality restaurants due to poor UI2023-08-17
- Tapping upvote accidentally collapses a comment subtree2023-05-22
- Existing digital MTG options are clumsy and nearly unusable for playing2022-09-16
- Tasks become cluttered over time even with labels and priorities2019-11-26
- Fund information is gibberish to retail customers, creating a huge upfront barrier to investing2018-03-07
- Existing crawlers are super slow, taking hours to finish one site2016-11-15
- Existing tiling window managers have poor documentation, making them hard to learn2014-11-05
- Current POS products have terrible, dated user interfaces2011-03-20