marwann

I'm looking for startups that failed because of a big engineering mistake, be it technical or in the management side, and I can't think of many famous examples.

I'm thinking about some reasons: - Being dependant on external services/code, eg. when an author removed some modules on NPM that caused thousands of websites to break - Bad hiring decisions in tech teams - Trying to patch bad code instead of starting over - Focusing on research (or code cleanliness) instead of finding product market fit

Maybe Google wave that had a buggy interface (though I suspect this wasn't the main problem), HP Touchpad that went out in a rush and was clearly badly developed.

Any clue?