Products · Broad category
Home appliances
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 4 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 Home appliances, 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 4 complaints
- Detents don't match settings, so users can't tell how many clicks reach a setting2023-09-11
- No easy way to fully disable the finished beep on appliances2022-05-30
- Every appliance has a unique non-standard interface, so setting clocks is hard2018-04-16
- Touch controls and switches give no indication of state or function, making them hard to use2016-08-22