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Tech products
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 5 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 Tech products, 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 4 complaints
- Friction is deliberately placed to slowly drain users' money and make leaving hard2025-05-12
- Products use dark patterns and exploitative flows to push users into things2024-11-26
- Technology products have terrible UX and users are told the problem is theirs2023-09-27
- Products ship broken and need endless fixes, patches, and confusing notices2020-09-27