Strudel

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2024–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Strudel, 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

Runs too heavily, causing stuttering on the commenter's Linux machines2025-12-03
Interface confuses people who already know music theory and composition2025-12-02
Can't figure out how to automatically shift the key2025-12-02
Play buttons look activated when loaded but are actually paused, confusing state2025-08-21
API reference hidden in REPL sidebar; finding functions requires guessing names2025-06-19
On a phone, it's unclear that tapping the logo opens the code panel2024-04-04