Frustration with Software Update Changes
Users are frustrated with recent updates that have complicated previously straightforward processes, making it difficult to manage time cards and understand earnings. This has led to a negative perception of the updates, with many expressing a strong dislike for the changes.
4 people in 4 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, 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 · pain score moderate (46/100)
- Since
- 14 Sept 2026 → 18 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
- 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
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…he ability, as a manager, to edit time cards on both web and the app. That’s really frustrating as a manager when I can’t fix my employees hours, or my own anymore.
FrustratedHomebase: Employee Scheduling — Hate the update! I hate the update! I can’t see the date that employees work easily anymore-have to click into each individual entry-terrible layout
Strong complaintHomebase: Employee Scheduling — New update sucks The new update on the earnings section is terrible the old earnings section was way better and way easier to understand.
Strong complaint…st tiniest print in the top left corner there it is it says the date. When before it was very clear, which date just by looking at all of the time cards at once Also, when I go to add a time card now while I’m already selected under a specific employee’s name, I didn’t have to re-add their name to the new time card I…
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Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 41.0 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Frustration with Software Update Changes 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 14 Sept 2026 and the most recent from 18 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: emerging — newly appearing in the evidence. Momentum is 65/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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