Haystack

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Haystack, 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

Code visualization was too confusing for reviewers because the interface felt alien2025-09-11
Back button does nothing when user expects to return to pull request summary2025-09-10
Interface is too mouse-dependent; windows must be resized manually instead of tiling2024-09-25
Too many floating windows to manage, hard to track parent windows2024-07-26
Scroll and cmd-plus zoom the whole UI instead of the canvas, and the canvas zoom isn't discoverable2024-07-26
Four unlabeled pane buttons have no tooltips and do nothing visible when clicked2024-07-26
Can't find pricing anywhere on the website2021-03-10
Pricing page is confusing about per-engineer versus per-account billing2020-01-10
Must name search result template files *.txt for no clear reason2009-05-28