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

(hissingkitty.com)

33 points | by drewlem 2 hours ago

9 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 57 minutes 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 44 minutes ago

        Popular services get more complaints.

        • tiffanyh 31 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 57 minutes 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 17 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 46 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 39 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 53 minutes ago

                        where have you gotten the idea to build this in the first place, lol

                        • drewlem 48 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 48 minutes ago

                            > lol

                            wtf?

                          • wzee-dev 24 minutes ago

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