Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel

(hissingkitty.com)

39 points | by drewlem 2 hours ago

10 comments

  • drbscl 1 hour ago
    Does this consider positive (or even ambivalent) comments too? Put another way, a product with wider use will have more complaints than something niche but worse.
    • Tenemo 1 hour ago
      +1 to this. Let's say, in an alternate universe, beloved Evernote had 1000x as many users as this dying crappy app still has in ours. It could easily top this rating because for hot/popular tools there will inevitably be unsatisfied users, too, even if the general sentiment is 99% positive.
    • drewlem 1 hour ago
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  • speedgoose 54 minutes ago
    Popular services get more complaints.
  • tiffanyh 40 minutes ago
    It'd be good to note which are actually networks (vs products).

    LinkedIn, RealPage, etc (on the list) are more so networks than a product.

  • laxmena 1 hour ago
    Citing the real source HN comments will be helpful.
    • drewlem 1 hour ago
      Good call. Each row now links to every comment we counted as a complaint, so you can check them one by one.
    • ciefa 1 hour ago
      +++
  • tmpz22 1 hour ago
    The only surprising absence for me was Datadog - the category I expected (high touch sales team, egregious margins, IPO or private equity pressures) is else wise pretty well represented.
    • drewlem 26 minutes ago
      Surprised it's not higher too. It's at #51 with 13 complaints.
  • joshstrange 1 hour ago
    New review submission is broken, give generic error. I never miss an opportunity to complain about the dumpster fire that is ClickUp but I was unable to submit my 1-star review.
    • drewlem 1 hour ago
      Just pushed an update. Should work now. Lots of traffic on the page now, thanks for the heads up.
  • sleepybrett 1 hour ago
    if github isn't at the top of this list whatever tooling you use to find sentiment is broken, fundamentally.
    • AznHisoka 55 minutes ago
      While HN has been negative on Github, October was its best month in terms of # of new orgs using it: https://bloomberry.com/data/github/
    • drewlem 49 minutes ago
      The rough math is based on % of negative vs. positive sentiment. There's likely a ton of noise around github that diluted the math. I can look into though, thanks for the feedback.
  • pop123-ux 1 hour ago
    where have you gotten the idea to build this in the first place, lol
    • drewlem 58 minutes ago
      Lol. 6 months of hearing 100s people complain about their SaaS stack, trying and replacing and rebuilding part of their stack themselves, moving to AI native alternatives, so wanted to see if what I'm hearing lines up with the data.
    • miroljub 57 minutes ago
      > lol

      wtf?

  • pnb1 5 minutes ago
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  • wzee-dev 33 minutes ago
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