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This makes me wonder if there are any major products out there that succeed despite terribad UX. In my mind I have a bunch of enterprise-y web apps but none really stand out.

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I'd say Hacker News succeeds despite its UX. You can't collapse threads, many pages miss basic navigation elements, etc.

Amazon, eBay, Craigslist. Especially that last one.

I agree they lack the edge in UX, on the other hand they got the other 2/3 of the puzzle that ender7 talks about in his first comment.

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