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Life & fun · November 3, 2026

HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel

Every business tool Hacker News complains about, ranked by count, with what commenters say they replaced it with. Counts from public HN comments.

HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel launched on November 3, 2026 with 71 votes, #35 of 690 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

HackerChurn aggregates complaints about business software tools from Hacker News comments over the past three years, ranking them by frequency of criticism. The site identifies which SaaS products users complain about most and what alternatives commenters recommend as replacements. It is designed for anyone evaluating business tools who wants to understand real user frustrations with popular platforms, from support issues to feature limitations and adoption challenges.

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From the sources

New research: The State of SaaS: Build vs. Buy, October 2026. The State of SaaS, October 2026. Read the report Built from what Hacker News commenters really think of the software they pay for. 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? Poor support, limited features and frustrating site editing. Scaling limits, adoption friction and administrative burden. Declining relevance, ownership concerns and bandwidth costs. Paywalled features, fragmented tools and intrusive branding. Complaints focus on high costs, poor support, difficult…from hissingkitty.com

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