Inaccessible mobile app for elderly users
Elder employees are facing usability issues with their phones, particularly when the display is zoomed in, preventing them from scrolling down to view essential information like timesheets. This frustration is likely deterring them from using the app effectively, making it feel unusable.
5 people in 5 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 5 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 5 people using QuickBooks Workforce
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 13 Oct 2025 → 05 Dec 2025
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
- QuickBooks Workforce
- 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
- Complaint5100%
Sources
5 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…y on the home page, it doesn’t need to be on the timesheets page too. It’s just in the way and is not increasing the likely hood that people use it, if anything it’s probably deterring people because it’s annoying. To other users who also find it incredibly annoying, you should spam their feedback link at the bottom…
Frustrated…use this app for work and the last thing I want to see are more ads. The ad is for some scam "on-demand pay". I'd rather use a physical punch clock because at least that does not shove advertisements in my face. Also, this app tracked my location even after I clocked out of work and had the app completely closed. Do…
…lly added an ad that takes up half of the screen and can’t be closed. It’s ridiculous. I now can only use about 30% of my screen to actually view time entries. I can’t close it at all so it’s just there to stay. Out of spite we are moving entirely away from quickbooks as a whole, cause they shovel ads into other…
…n advertisement you cannot exit out of in the top half of the screen. Elder employees, whose phones are zoomed in are unable to even scroll down to view their timesheets. This is an accessibility issue and this wastes my time. Fire your UI person.
…m seeing my time card s and there are no options to close out the ad. This makes the app unusable on my phone.
Market and score
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Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 24.7 → 24.4 · 24 Sept 2026, 19:00 → 20:15 UTC
How the score was measured38 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 Inaccessible mobile app for elderly users 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?
- 5 different people described it independently, in 5 mentions, the earliest from 13 Oct 2025 and the most recent from 05 Dec 2025. 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 43/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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