Y Combinator

Raised as a usability problem by 45 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 39 threads.

People raised many different problems with Y Combinator, 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 44 complaints

Login required after writing a post, risking loss of the unsaved text2026-10-03
Tapping a cluster icon on iOS does nothing, and icons don't reload when zooming out2025-09-04
Map has no axes or labels, so clusters are confusing to interpret2024-12-26
Can only browse profiles one by one, with no keyword search across people2023-02-21
Search misses results when words are reordered or there are double spaces2023-01-07
Clicking a founder in search results opens an old company instead of the founder2023-01-05
Can't find the event when searching for it2022-12-09
Clicking a company name changes the search term instead of opening the company2022-05-01
Unsubscribing from marketing emails requires logging into an account2022-03-22
Speakers repeat questions and talk slowly, making the video tedious to consume2021-10-05
Chat icon looks like WhatsApp, so people think it shares to WhatsApp2021-08-13
Horizontal scrolling wastes space on half-width browser windows, frustrating users2021-02-02
Login sends users into a half-finished company details step they can't skip2020-10-30
Signup always jumps to step 4/4 with no way to go back on mobile2020-10-30
Site takes about 20 seconds to open, too slow to use2020-04-20
Page hijacks PgDn and Space keys so normal scrolling navigation doesn't work2018-01-06
Transcript hidden in Scribd applet that is hard to read on mobile2016-09-16
Commenter finds the site's interface pretty confusing as a new user2016-05-29
Commenter can't tell what the site does or its purpose2016-03-19
Page loads blank with only a non-working search bar visible2016-03-18
Takes about 44 mouse scrolls to see 40 items, making browsing tedious2015-12-18
Can't tell whether green check or X means a bad clause is present2015-12-09
Unclear where to click, fears submitting a blank form by accident2015-07-20
Sign-in asks for a password unexpectedly and login keeps failing in Safari2015-04-16
Socratic dialogue format and asides make simple concepts confusing to follow2014-09-11
Page is very laggy to interact with on a phone2014-09-09
Descriptions hidden behind tiny corner arrows; links vanish when switching companies on laptop2014-03-25
Site redirects Android users to a mobile version that displays an empty page2013-05-23
Placeholder text is random and takes seconds to recognise as placeholder2012-04-09
Website is nearly impossible to read2012-03-28
Users can't tell the overall flow or where they are in the process2011-11-01
Clicking the "incentive" link loops back to itself, leaving the reader confused about its meaning2011-11-01
Canvas-rendered titles make the page impossible to search with browser find2011-01-11
Could not find how to edit the page and add a link after signing up2010-11-02
Date column sorts alphabetically instead of chronologically, so dates come out in the wrong order2010-10-17
Applying via the website is inconvenient and unfriendly on phones compared to a native app2010-03-03
Chat widget is so intrusive the user must resize the browser to hide it2009-10-24
Downloading attachments now requires browsing through modules, making things more complicated2008-07-23
No visible text box, so users have no hint how to enter text2008-07-23
Form asks for ambiguous website and name fields with unclear meaning2007-11-02
Breaks the browser back button, which is frustrating to use2007-11-02
Clicking Update after leaving the page open returns an error, risking lost data2007-10-11
Must re-click toolbar link to see comment notifications on monitored threads2007-10-09
Clicking a marker navigates away from the map instead of showing a bubble2007-08-19