HackerChurn lists SaaS tools with highest HN complaints
Original title: Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel
Analysis of 3 years of Hacker News comments flags Bitwarden, Notion, and Asana for highest churn as users build their own replacements.
A Hacker News Show post presents HackerChurn, which reads public comments from the last 3 years naming tracked SaaS tools and counts complaints. The project requires 3 complaints from 2 threads for inclusion. It highlights tools like Bitwarden, Obsidian, Xero, WordPress, Grafana, Linear, ChatGPT, Basecamp, Notion, Claude, Substack, ADP, Teams, Mailchimp, and Asana. Counts update nightly and link every complaint to its original thread.
- Tools need 3 complaints from 2 threads to be listed.
- Counts update nightly.
- Every counted complaint links to the original comment.
- Source uses Hacker News search API labeled by AI.
- HissingKitty reviews provide another data source.
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We read a sample of public Hacker News comments from the last 3 years that name software we track, and counted which ones had the most complaints. Did your least favorite platform make the list? Tools need 3 complaints from 2 threads to be listed.
By drewlem · hissingkitty.com
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