Why Your App Breaks for Indian Users (And How to Build Infrastructure That Doesn't)

The Incident A startup founder came to me with a frustrating problem. His e-commerce site worked perfectly on Wi-Fi. It worked on broadband. But the moment any of his customers opened it on Jio mobile data, they got a skeleton screen. No error message. No crash log. Just silence. He had built the entire app using AI-generated code. Lovable, Bolt, ChatGPT, the whole vibe-coded stack. It looked great in demos. It worked fine on his laptop. But it was silently broken for a massive chunk of his actual user base. Within an hour of looking at it, I had the root cause. Supabase's API endpoints were being throttled or silently dropped by Jio's network at the ISP level. Not a bug in his code. Not a Vercel misconfiguration. A network-level routing problem completely invisible to anyone who doesn't understand what their stack is actually doing under the hood. This Is Not Just a Supabase Problem Before we get into the fix, let me give you the bigger picture because this will happen to you too if y