Temple wearable pre-order site crashes after launch due to traffic overload
The official website for the Rs 85,000 Temple health-tracking device crashed when pre-orders opened, prompting founder Deepinder Goyal to acknowledge the issue and later confirm it was resolved.
The official site for Temple, a head-worn health-tracking wearable priced at Rs 85,000, experienced a shutdown minutes after pre-orders opened at 9:30 PM on November 1. The surge in traffic caused the website, temple.com, to become inaccessible, although the companion app continued to function.
Founder Deepinder Goyal, who also founded Zomato, posted on X that the site was overwhelmed by traffic and that the team had underestimated demand, describing the lack of auto-scaling as a "rookie mistake." He later updated followers that the technical team had restored the site and asked users not to rush their orders.
Temple is marketed as a head-mounted device that uses a medical-grade adhesive to monitor mental strain, brain blood flow, and heart rate from a major artery. It is offered in six colours and has been seen on Indian athletes PV Sindhu and Shubman Gill. The company states that it does not pay anyone to wear or promote the device.
User comments on social media highlighted the contrast between the device’s high price and the website’s technical issues, with some noting the need for better scalability testing and others making light-hearted jokes about ordering through the Swiggy platform.