Hi I'm working with sgrove on the project. We had considered an app cacheing or reuse approach for dealing with this influx of traffic, however we wanted every one to have a fresh install experience.

We very well could have directed you to an existing unclaimed install of a popular app and saved the resources of spinning up another. We felt that this could be messy as you might end up on an app that somebody had polluted with test/demo data and settings.

We cache dependencies for popular apps.

i understand your goal. but realize that current experience is "frozen at 8%"... not a super first impression either.

just suggesting to improve the hn post consequences