Remind: Frustration with Complicated App Setup
Users are experiencing frustration with the app due to complicated setup instructions and issues with message delivery. This has led to disappointment and a decline in the app's reliability, impacting user satisfaction.
6 different people have complained about this since 16 Jul 2025, most recently on 13 Sept 2026.
- “Remind: School Communication — Once reliable and wonderful….now frustrating.”
- “It is frustrating that remind doesn’t send texts out anymore”
- “I have tried several times to fix the issue within the remind app that tells me my messages may not be received I’ve deleted the app several times and redownloaded it.”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 6 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Remind: School Communication
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 67% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 16 Jul 2025 → 13 Sept 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
- Remind: School Communication
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 33% 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
- Complaint467%
- Request233%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 1 post was held back as off-topic; all 6 still count toward the score.
Remind: School Communication — Once reliable and wonderful….now frustrating It used to be the best app ever…great at sending announcements and posting things especially for field trips. Now it’s filled with glitches including perpetual error messages and frozen screens. There’s a limit how large your class can be…
Frustrated…ight). I’m now scrambling to figure out how to handle the situation. Very disappointed. I don’t plan to use this program any longer because I cannot risk this type of situation happening again.
Remind: School Communication — Used to be better It is frustrating that remind doesn’t send texts out anymore
FrustratedRemind: School Communication — Sending messages I have tried several times to fix the issue within the remind app that tells me my messages may not be received I’ve deleted the app several times and redownloaded it. It’s pretty important to be able to reach out to my instructor considering that’s the whole basis of…
…veral years this worked amazing delivering messages right into text. Now you have to download the app and follow complicated instructions to set it up to have it deliver messages to your text inbox. It doesn’t work for about half the people and they have to open the app to see the message in there. Defeating the…
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 30.6 · 17 Oct 2026, 00:00 → 01:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Frustration with Complicated App Setup 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?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 16 Jul 2025 and the most recent from 13 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 61/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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