SaaS UX Frustrations

Users describe negative experiences with clunky UIs, slow and buggy dashboards, inconsistent features, poor support, and slow improvements in a SaaS developer tool, often preferring alternatives.

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Sample Comments

shishy Dec 11, 2018 View on HN

What do you hate about it? I've had a good and seamless experience with their software.

happytoexplain Apr 20, 2021 View on HN

Sometimes you need to be a "power user" to encounter all a product's flaws. I've been using it professionally for 3.5 years, and I touch pretty much every feature. I had high hopes because I loved a lot of the decisions they were making, so I started maintaining a list of issues/bugs. I reported them when I had time to describe them well. After a year, it got into the hundreds, with some that were pretty dramatic, and I stopped caring enough to continue, because it was c

joshghent Feb 16, 2022 View on HN

From my personal experience, it's slow, a pain to use outside of a few "happy paths" and there are better options out there

boesboes Sep 1, 2025 View on HN

I've been trying it for a couple of months, I can't recommend it either tbh. It's frustrating as hell to work with: super inconsistent, very bad at following its own instructions, wasteful and generally unreliable.The problem is, it's like a very, very junior programmer that knows the framework well, but won't use it consistently and doesn't learn from mistakes AT ALL. And has amnesia. Fine for some trivial things, but anything more complicated the hand-holding b

joshxyz Oct 2, 2021 View on HN

For me its their achilles heel. Tried sining up earlier this year, the UI is a clusterfuck of products and services, I spent more time on google to find the right pages and the right description, comparison, and documentation of their products

mrwnmonm May 25, 2020 View on HN

I don't find it easy to use. I want something like existing APM SaaS.

photoGrant Nov 16, 2018 View on HN

I've had similar not /great/ experiences. I ended up on a conference call with one of their staff to work through some limitations. Some basic interface fixes were required, especially when it came to some Blocks implementations -- sad to say this was ~6 months ago and those changes still haven't happened.

throw457 Jun 15, 2022 View on HN

Used it for a while and after 2-3 months I gave up. It reminded me of those awful Filemaker workspaces in the early 2000s.

whalesalad Mar 15, 2019 View on HN

On principle alone I wouldn't give them my money ever again. I'd engineer my own lightweight solution before then or use an underdog competitor. I have a sour taste in my mouth for their meteoric rise to success/IPO versus their pathetic investments (or lack therof) in product improvement. It really sucks to use. Reminds me of Engineyard (also abandonware).

shinryuu Jun 27, 2023 View on HN

I have developed stuff on top of their platform. Worst experience I ever had.