--- title: The most disastrous app launch of all time… | daily.dev description: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence resigned after the company's disastrous app launch that tarnished its reputation and led to massive financial losses. The app was... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-disastrous-app-launch-of-all-time--hycht12ed twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The most disastrous app launch of all time… | daily.dev og:description: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence resigned after the company's disastrous app launch that tarnished its reputation and led to massive financial losses. The app was... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-disastrous-app-launch-of-all-time--hycht12ed og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hyCHt12eD.png og:image:alt: The most disastrous app launch of all time… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The most disastrous app launch of all time… **[Fireship](https://daily.dev/sources/fireship)** · 4 min read · 1867 upvotes · 65 comments ## Summary Sonos CEO Patrick Spence resigned after the company's disastrous app launch that tarnished its reputation and led to massive financial losses. The app was rewritten using Flutter but released in an unstable state. This move severely impacted the user experience and highlighted the risks of prioritizing premature product releases. The new CEO has since fired the chief product officer, amid rumors of executive negligence towards engineers' warnings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 107 upvotes > Let's see who found out about daily.dev thanks to this video **@choovick** · 12 upvotes > Ok he got me, now i'm here... Reddit been not very useful lately. **@kramer** · 11 upvotes > Clickbait Shield just bitch slapped the title of this video 😄 > > ## Before > >  > > ## After > >  **@rustrazor64** · 7 upvotes > here because of this **@denzelkaz** · 3 upvotes > already watching on daily.dev lol ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#flutter](https://daily.dev/tags/flutter) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-disastrous-app-launch-of-all-time--hycht12ed) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The most disastrous app launch of all time…","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-disastrous-app-launch-of-all-time--hycht12ed","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-disastrous-app-launch-of-all-time--hycht12ed"},"datePublished":"2025-01-15T14:35:07.703Z","dateModified":"2025-01-18T08:19:54.720Z","description":"Sonos CEO Patrick Spence resigned after the company's disastrous app launch that tarnished its reputation and led to massive financial losses. 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