Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by timrichard » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

bsenftner wrote: post #13

iTunes

It's a nice OS, but could do with a simple lightweight music player.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by hiyer » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

satyanash wrote: post #24

comfortablynerd wrote: post #4

indian railways website

While that was true for quite some time, it has dramatically improved to it's current state such that it is only noticeable during peak 'tatkal' booking time. The UI/UX is still horrible though.

The UI is horrible, but the UX is quite functional. And given the millions of people with various degrees of tech-savviness who use it, it's probably a good thing they haven't done a major revamp in years.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by singularity2001 » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:18 PM UTC

rostigerpudel wrote: post #64

You might want to take a look at http://dreckstool.de/hitlist.do There is a nice ranking there... ("Dreckstool" = sh*tty tool)

and a pun on "dirty sh*t" (stool)

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by hiyer » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

Clearcase. I used to think Perforce was a bad VCS until I had the misfortune of having to use Clearcase. Perforce is no spring chicken, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to CC. And of course open source VCS'es like git and svn are light years ahead of both of these.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by ksvarma » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:34 PM UTC

Internet Explorer Plus their bookmarks manager

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by ksvarma » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

Some of the Banking websites ( easily say most of them) - Bank of america, ICICIBank (India), State Bank of India etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by egwynn » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:42 PM UTC

Almost anything designed by (or at the behest of) a TV network. From set-top box software to web platforms to mobile apps. They always want to shoehorn their long antiquated paradigms into everything they make.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by throw7 » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:43 PM UTC

IBM Notes?

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by arrakeen » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:52 PM UTC

lima wrote: post #8

JIRA and Confluence...

spend 10 minutes with Rally and you'll be begging for JIRA

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

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Post by MrMember » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

hiyer wrote: post #84

Clearcase. I used to think Perforce was a bad VCS until I had the misfortune of having to use Clearcase. Perforce is no spring chicken, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to CC. And of course open source VCS'es like git and svn are light years ahead of both of these.

I always make a backup of all my work before trying to check it into ClearCase. It should not be possible to accidentally delete files when adding them to source control or checking them in.