PowerApps

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with PowerApps, 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

Slow and impossible to use, with underwhelming configuration options2024-01-01
Every click in the dev interface takes about 5 seconds2023-12-31
Must hunt through laggy interfaces to find where code can live2021-03-03
Making the UI responsive and building complex button interactions is painful and the app feels sluggish2021-03-03
App locks when multiple users access the Excel data source simultaneously2021-03-03
Custom needs require fighting the framework or are impossible2015-11-30