State-run websites. Tax forms.
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?
#42Coinbase. 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.
Yeah coinbase is total shit, its insane that they are dominant
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#43Slack
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#44Wouldn'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.
> That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.
And yet, 25 minutes and 42 comments.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#45ebay
I shop a lot on Ebay, I think it really works well.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#46ebay
They change stuff seemingly at random, usually for the worst, I always imagine various competing groups in the organization just add and remove features and how things work when they feel like it or need to show that they are "doing something."
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#47Pretty 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?
My guess would be that everybody is just happy they have some tool for this other than pen and paper. Since not one product in the sector distinguishes itself by being both mostly correct and somewhat useable, there is no pressure to improve.
EDIT: typo
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#48Really? 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.
> Not optimized for users
It's slow and buggy and awful to use on most Android phones for most of history. It sucks the CPU and battery while you're not using it and slows your whole phone down.
> hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.
No it's completely fair and totally true. The Facebook apps are really badly designed and so are the websites.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#49JIRA and Confluence...
Slack et al work great for arguing and discussing, but confluence is the best Wiki for recording long term conclusions and providing long term structure for projects. Google Docs is a jumbled atrocity by comparison ... confluence linking
and navigation just work.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
#50skype for business