About Smartsheet: Projects & Teams
Slow and Unreliable Saving Function
The platform experiences significant performance issues, characterized by extremely slow saving times and frequent failures to save. Users report that the system often freezes during auto-save processes, leading to frustration and inefficiency.
4 different people have complained about this since 09 Jul 2026, most recently on 30 Jul 2026.
“It tries to auto save after every cell change and completely freezes until that save is complete.”
“Literally worse than dial up internet, always EXTREMELY SLOW!!!”
“Super slow, always takes a long time to save and often wont save.”
4 people in 4 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 4 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 4 people using Smartsheet: Projects & Teams
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 50% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 09 Jul 2026 → 30 Jul 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
- Smartsheet: Projects & Teams
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 50% 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
- Complaint250%
- Request250%
Sources
4 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…uly horrid functionality when operating with limited data connection. It tries to auto save after every cell change and completely freezes until that save is complete. It even does this when no data connection is available fully preventing any interaction with the sheet at all. Absolute nightmare to use in any…
Smartsheet: Projects & Teams — Clunky — Love web based Smartsheet but not this mobile app. Often encountered save errors and other usability issues.
Smartsheet: Projects & Teams — Sloooooooooooow Literally worse than dial up internet, always EXTREMELY SLOW!!!
Smartsheet: Projects & Teams Super slow, always takes a long time to save and often wont save.
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 23.7 · 26 Sept 2026, 07:00 → 08:15 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 Slow and Unreliable Saving Function 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 09 Jul 2026 and the most recent from 30 Jul 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: quiet — no recent mentions. Momentum is 30/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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