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Homegrown software
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 5 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 Homegrown software, 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 5 complaints
- Outdated docs, undocumented build steps and hidden setup requirements make the framework hard to get running2025-10-08
- Users must click through many screens manually to run department workflows, wasting time2025-01-09
- CI failures are hard or impossible to reproduce locally, so fixes become a slow loop2021-11-18
- Internal platform documentation is neglected, so teams struggle to use the tools2021-08-11
- Failed overwrites show cryptic 'predicate failed' instead of saying the file can't be overwritten2021-07-06