Products · Broad category
IoT devices
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 7 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 IoT devices, 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 6 complaints
- Lay users can't practically configure secure access to IoT devices across networks2025-04-11
- Devices expecting one flat network break when isolated on separate VLANs, requiring constant networking upkeep2024-07-01
- Built-in data retrieval is too slow and batches data, forcing reverse engineering2024-01-20
- Forced updates change or limit functionality unexpectedly and block use when urgently needed2023-09-05
- Struggling to factory reset IoT devices and upgrade their firmware2022-11-02
- Flat controls without tactile cues are unusable for blind people2021-04-20