Microsoft Power Platform

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft Power Platform, 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

Developers find it unintuitive, hard to change, and hard to iterate quickly in2025-12-27
Unintuitive and limited, forcing many ridiculous workarounds for common tasks2024-01-18
Default calendar selector lets users pick dates past allowed limits, awkward UI gimmicks2023-12-31
Can't place a data table control on a custom component, blocking reuse2022-07-15
Workflows run in user context and HTTP requires a paid premium tier2021-11-12
Horrible UX; widgets fail for licensing reasons with no way to know beforehand2021-11-11
Navigating the GUI to make even simple changes is cumbersome and must be repeated manually2021-03-21
Pasting a string puts the whole UI in an error state, losing unsaved changes2021-03-03
Visual workflow tool is more confusing for end users than Parabola2018-05-24