Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? (2020) Fellow user albertgudl asked this question a year ago:[1] "What are products you use frequently but still hate/they suck? What are products you use frequently but think they could be done better?" Does anyone have something to add this year? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715548 |
If I don't find what I need in the first few results I have to scroll endlessly. No amount of filtering or sorting helps.
The browsing experience is lacking. I think most people have been trained to buy specific items, rather than searching for the product that is good for them.
I think the covid lockdown really made me look at what I was spending money on. 95% of my orders on amazon were things I did not need within 2-3 days, heck even a week. And probably 50% of the things I bought I did not need at all. Not to mention I could have purchased them in retail stores.
While Amazon is convenient to shop, it is also dangerous. The ability to quickly look at products and buy things with the click of a button can be addicting.
However, I don't think I have used an amazon product where the UX wasn't a mess...
But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discovery playlists.
On iOS and macOS, a new session from idling a long time often won't start playing the last track, saying it can't find it.
Another annoyance is when someone edits the playlists or licensing situation may have changed, and songs just drop out of existence, so you never really "own" anything and there's zero permanence.
It's better to have your own collection and use Spot, Last or Panda as discovery mechanisms.
It has a ton of icons and labels and whatnot that for me provide only clutter. They never completely integrated the 'tasks' or 'notes' or whatever they used to call it either. It's also much slower to load.
Apple Music.app - gets worse with every release.
Has so many great features and i'm not sure of any alternatives that gets even close what calibre can do.
- Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word (the desktop apps)
- Google Sheets, Android, GMail
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects etc)
- Git, GitHub
- Apple Finder
- Dropbox, Dropbox Paper
Not products, but technologies: most programming languages, CSS, most APIs, anything with the description "static site generator"
Terminator, VSCode and Chrome: mostly love. GUI file managers, display stuff: mostly hate.
Terrible UX, sluggish, indexing problems.
anki does a lot of things, but all of the defaults are sensible
gitk,
xcode