Shortcat

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Shortcat, 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

Hint highlights take about 4 seconds to appear after pressing the hotkey2022-10-16
Kept crashing and didn't reliably find the element to click on2020-08-31
Shortcat can't find clickable elements in Chrome or VSCode for keyboard navigation2017-08-07
Can't figure out how to click an element after highlighting2013-06-08
Shortcat appears in the cmd-tab app cycling, cluttering the switcher2013-06-08