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About Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker

Shift scheduling tool frustrations

Users find the Deputy Shift Schedule Maker to be frustrating and ineffective for factory work. Many express a strong desire for improvements or alternatives, indicating widespread dissatisfaction with the app's functionality.

6 different people have complained about this since 01 May 2025, most recently on 01 Dec 2025.

  • “I wish my employer didn’t use this company.”

    App Store (English storefronts)·26 Jun 2023read the original ↗
  • “Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Terrible for factory work.”

    App Store (English storefronts)·01 May 2025read the original ↗
  • “Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Please fix this.”

    App Store (English storefronts)·08 Jul 2024read the original ↗
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6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low

Pain pointStableEvidence: low
Index score
26.7
ahead of 47% of the rest of this market
0.0%signals / 7d
Demand
0.0low
Momentum
42.8moderate
Pain
0.0low
Competition
30.9low
lower is better
Monetization
9.0low
Market size
9.3low
Evidence
43.3moderate

The pain

shares of 6 quoted posts

What goes wrong, and for whom

Who
6 people using Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker
What goes wrong
Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
How bad
100% of posts are complaints
Since
01 May 2025 → 01 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
Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker
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.
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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

6posts
  • Complaint6100%
26 Jun 20236 posts01 Dec 2025

Sources

6 signals · 1 sources

App Store (English storefronts)6
Only public content is collected, author names are stored as one-way hashes, and every excerpt links back to its original post.

Evidence

Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Payroll & HR·01 Dec 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    …imes the app has pinned me in a different location far from the site. Very frustrating and annoying!

    Frustrated
  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Payroll & HR·26 Jun 2023·Complaintsource ↗

    Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Worst app Worst app. I wish my employer didn’t use this company. I can never swap a shift because it never loads!! Useless

    Wishes it existed
  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Payroll & HR·01 May 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Terrible for factory work Good luck getting it to load in a low service area like a factory or editing any punch legit hate this app with a passion

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Payroll & HR·24 Jul 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    …s no real ways to track labor and has cost me a good amount of money. This app is trash. Don’t use it for your company

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Payroll & HR·08 Jul 2024·Complaintsource ↗

    Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Please fix this Why do I have to be on-site to clock out. That defeats the entire point of having the app on my phone

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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?

Needs at least two snapshots

No movement recorded yet

A second snapshot is needed to explain a change.

How the score was measured
38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100
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Market size
Distinct people affected6 → 26
Distinct communities0 → 0
Distinct sources0 → 0
Adjacent categories0 → 0
Regions / languages0 → 0
Competition
Existing products5 → 50
New entrants (90d)0 → 0
Funded players0 → 0
Market maturity10.2 → 85
Incumbent activity0 → 0
Monetization
Stated willingness to pay0 → 0
Existing paid products3 → 38
Pricing complaints0 → 0
Business context0 → 0
Momentum
Period-over-period growth0 → 40
Latest period growth0 → 43
Sustained trend0 → 43
Acceleration0 → 50
Pain
Complaint intensity0 → 0
Complaint frequency0 → 0
Negative sentiment0 → 0
Willingness to switch0 → 0
Urgency0 → 0
Willingness to pay0 → 0
Repeat complaints0 → 0
Demand
Mention volume0 → 0
Explicit requests0 → 0
Distinct people0 → 0
Questions asked0 → 0
Alternative searches0 → 0
Feature requests0 → 0
Evidence
Evidence volume6 → 24
Source diversity1 → 35
Extraction confidence20.5 → 21
Source credibility72 → 72
Duplicate rate0 → 100
Freshness297.6 → 0
Cluster cohesion100 → 100

Questions about this idea

Is Shift scheduling tool frustrations 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 01 May 2025 and the most recent from 01 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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