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.”
“Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Terrible for factory work.”
“Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker — Please fix this.”
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 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.
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
- Complaint6100%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…imes the app has pinned me in a different location far from the site. Very frustrating and annoying!
FrustratedDeputy: 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 existedDeputy: 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
…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
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
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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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 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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