Said It Here

Someone else already said it

Most of the annoying, tedious, expensive things in ordinary life have already been described in public, in detail, by someone who was in the middle of it. That writing is scattered across a few million forum threads where nobody will ever find it again. This site collects it by the difficulty it describes.

What is actually here

One page per recurring difficulty. On it: what the difficulty is, how many different people have described it and where, their own words with a link back to each thread, and whatever they said they do about it in the meantime.

A difficulty gets a page only after at least two different people have described it. That threshold is the whole point — anyone can find one person complaining about anything. How this works explains the grouping, the counts, and which parts of each page are written by a language model.

Who it is for

Two kinds of people, wanting opposite things from the same page. Someone who has just hit the problem and wants to know they are not being stupid — that it is the thing, not them, and here is what other people ended up doing. And someone looking for something worth building or fixing, who would rather read forty real complaints than a market report.

Who runs it

An independent project, run by one person. There is no company behind it, no investor, and nobody paying for placement on any page. Nothing here is sponsored, and no product is ever listed in exchange for money.

Questions, corrections, and takedown requests all go to [email protected].

How it pays for itself

Through ads, and that is the only way. Nothing on this site is behind a paywall, there is no account to create and no newsletter to join. What that costs you is described in the privacy policy.

Ads never determine what gets a page. The threshold does, and it is the same threshold whether the subject is lucrative or not.