Pretty much any financial or HR app: QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, ADP...
Why is it like that? Are people not interested to design better products or it’s the “don’t fix what’s not broken” attitude?
Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
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#33ebay
PayPal too.
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#34Coinbase.
Their webapp and mobile app are full of lies and bugs. Sometimes they won't take your money but they say they did, sometimes they take 5x extra money from your account, etc. Making billions though.
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#36WordPress. The buggiest, ugliest (in terms of code) piece of shit on Earth. And somehow it managed to get almost 50% all website traffic... (with all the revenue that this means)
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#37Really? How so?
The page loads fairly quickly for me, and the design is highly optimized. Not optimized for users, mind you, but optimized for profitability.
If you don't like Facebook, that's one thing but it's hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.
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#38Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#39Windows
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#401.Solarwinds
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