Products · Broad category
Recipe apps
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Add recipe form takes seconds to appear, seeming brokenUnreviewed
20092026- Timer requires switching apps or tabs instead of one press from the recipe2024-09-30
- Recipe apps have terrible UI that makes them hard to use2021-12-14
- Add recipe form takes seconds to appear, so user thinks app is broken2020-10-28
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
- Timer requires switching apps or tabs instead of one press from the recipe2024-09-30
- Pressing enter doesn't split ingredients, and input is lost when moving to the next box2022-07-01
- Recipe apps have terrible UI that makes them hard to use2021-12-14
- Add recipe form takes seconds to appear, so user thinks app is broken2020-10-28
- Hard to use with messy hands; must scroll and disable auto-lock, then forgets to re-enable it2010-09-03
- Users can't discover grouping ingredients, hidden under a 'more options' menu2009-10-03