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side-project
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 15 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with side-project, 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 19 complaints
- Platform downloads and key details are hard to find, and gray-on-gray text is hard to read2025-12-18
- Ads make the page heavy and slow until the user must reload2023-01-23
- A subscribe pop-up appears and gets in the way of the page2022-07-16
- Pricing and how to settle payments are unclear2022-07-16
- Couldn't work out how to change the currency per project2021-04-19
- "Try for Free" button leads to pricing page instead of demo or signup2021-04-19
- Scrolling stops on iOS, making the site tedious to read2020-12-30
- Too much data on landing pages confuses visitors about what the product is2018-12-07
- Captions stay in German even after English is selected2016-05-03
- Clicking Order button shows mailing list popup, and closing it does nothing2016-03-03
- Page feels laggy when scrolling because hover transform triggers under the cursor2014-07-09
- Can't find a way to upload tabular data, possibly a UX flaw2014-06-14
- Front page feels cluttered, with two menu bars and an ad causing info overload2011-09-23
- UI is too complicated and confusing; user can't understand it2011-09-14
- Hovering one button makes both look active or inactive, so the state is unclear2011-01-08
- "swallow 8 more pills per day" claim is confusing to understand2011-01-08
- Link to add items at page bottom is not obvious to users2010-03-20
- User can't figure out how to enter items or what the text box and button do2010-03-20
- Menus and buttons are hard to click, and links don't scroll to the next menu2009-01-18