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As an Overcast user, I don't disagree about the design aspect here, but for whom does this make money?
Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#12Salesforce?
Ah, and let’s not forget JIRA. JIRA is a real dumpster fire.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#13iTunes
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#14Pretty much any financial or HR app: QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, ADP...
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#15Wouldn't anyone on this site, if they had the knowledge of that, make a competing product? Or perhaps some of us are? That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.
Not necessarily... If I said MS-Word, would you decide to go out and create a word processor, probably not since the market is pretty much a done deal.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#16Pokemon Go (Android, can't say about the iPhone version)
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#17Pokemon Go (Android, can't say about the iPhone version)
It's a buggy mess also.
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#18ebay
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#19Wouldn't anyone on this site, if they had the knowledge of that, make a competing product? Or perhaps some of us are? That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.
By and large the apps that are bad will be in markets where the purchasing decision makers are not buying based upon the quality of the app.
In which case you could create a better competing app and it wouldn't matter.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#20Any electronic medical record software
This is probably the right answer. Between oldness, amount of money made, and general bad design, I think EHR systems take the cake.