Vercel

Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Vercel, 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 16 complaints

Permission request wording feels like a dark pattern pushing users to grant access2026-04-09
Every keystroke adds an entry to the global browser history, cluttering it2025-09-29
Dashboard failed to load for over a week after a glitch2025-04-04
UI performance suffers from how the hooks are implemented2025-02-20
Often needs browser reload before the next prompt works2024-02-27
Huge broken image blocks half the page on Safari2024-01-23
Took the commenter a while to figure out how to make it work2023-06-16
Commenter says the service is unpopular because of bad UX, without specifying the problem2023-05-03
Can't find the requested link anywhere on the website2023-04-10
CLI login wall blocks running the app; GitHub login option fails2023-03-09
Can't find an API for it in the docs2023-02-24
Important information is hidden away under a tooltip on the pricing page2022-06-29
Pricing tiers and restrictions are not presented clearly, feels like a sneaky dark pattern2021-11-23
Deployments auto-ran to data centers that couldn't run the app, then the CLI crashed2021-11-12
Experienced developer cannot tell what the product actually offers from the homepage2020-12-16
Deployments randomly fail with network errors, forcing days of repeated redeploys2020-04-21