We read a sample of public Hacker News comments from the last 3 years that name software we track, and counted which ones had the most complaints. Did your least favorite platform make the list?
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built their own replacement
→ Bitwarden
Built their own · 2→ Obsidian
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 5→ Xero
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 2
Built their own · 1→ WordPress
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 4
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 10
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 7
→ Grafana
Built their own · 7
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 2→ WordPress
→ Linear
Built their own · 4
Built their own · 8→ ChatGPT
Built their own · 2
Built their own · 1→ Basecamp
Built their own · 3→ Linear
Built their own · 6
Built their own · 3→ Basecamp
Built their own · 3→ Notion
Built their own · 8
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 2
Built their own · 3→ Claude
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 4
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 5
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 1
→ Substack
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 5
→ ADP
Built their own · 2
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 1
→ Teams
→ Mailchimp
Built their own · 3
Built their own · 2→ Asana
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 1
Built their own · 2
Tools need 3 complaints from 2 threads to be listed. Source: public comments via the Hacker News search API, labeled by AI and counted. Every counted complaint links to the original comment. Hacker News is one source; HissingKitty reviews are another. Counts update nightly. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
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