App performance and availability issues
Users are experiencing significant frustration with the app due to its slow performance and frequent bugs. The managing availability feature is particularly problematic, often failing to work and requiring multiple restarts to function.
4 people in 4 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 4 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 4 people using Homebase: Employee Scheduling
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 15 Aug 2026 → 21 Aug 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Homebase: Employee Scheduling
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint4100%
Sources
4 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
Homebase: Employee Scheduling — Would not recommend This is a frustrating and buggy product. When we were deciding whether or not to purchase this software for our team, we were promised a bunch of features by the sales rep. After we signed up, those features have never been delivered. Basic things like calendar…
Frustrated…the screen will go black- and my phone will stop for several seconds. Most annoying app I’ve ever had to use.
FrustratedHomebase: Employee Scheduling — Easy, but has bugs The managing availability part of the app refuses to work, super slow to load app and usually have to restart app few times before it responds.
…e: Employee Scheduling — should work better nice app, cool features. buts it’s super slow and buggy. shouldn’t be this hard to have the app running smoothly.
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 22.7 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is App performance and availability issues a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 4 different people described it independently, in 4 mentions, the earliest from 15 Aug 2026 and the most recent from 21 Aug 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 40/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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