Monkeytype

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Monkeytype, 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

Current UI makes it very hard to understand what is going on2026-10-24
Backspace habit clashes with how the site handles typing errors, even with setting off2025-06-02
Can't figure out how to start the app locally; npm start fails and README lacks instructions2020-10-29
Couldn't find examples showing what the generated annotations look like2017-12-22
Python 3.6+ requirement is buried near the end of the article, so users waste time2017-12-22