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Jayden
10 Apr, 2026, 01:29

Hi, I'm Jayden. My email is jaydthom@haverford.org, and i'm having persistent deployment failures with my Next.js project.

What happens:

Push to GitHub triggers a build on Appwrite Cloud It shows "Waiting for build to start" for 5-10+ minutes before processing begins After ~15m 46s of processing, the deployment fails with "Your deployment has failed" No specific error message is shown in the logs beyond the failure Project details:

Next.js 16.2.2 with React 19 ~52 source files (small project) Build completes successfully locally in under 60 seconds Dependencies: framer-motion, lucide-react, recharts, Tailwind CSS v4, Appwrite SDK Recently cleaned up heavy unused packages (removed react-icons, jsdom, html-react-parser) to reduce install size

What I've tried:

Removed dependencies (cut ~87 MB from node_modules) Verified the build works perfectly on my local machine Confirmed latest code is pushed to the repo Retried deployment multiple times — same result

TL;DR
Issue: Developers experiencing deployment failures on Appwrite Cloud after 15+ minutes, getting a "Waiting for build to start" message followed by a timeout error. Solution: The developers have tried removing dependencies to reduce the node_modules size and verified that the build works locally. They've also ensured the latest code is pushed to the repository but the deployment still fails. Further troubleshooting is required to identify the specific root cause of this deployment issue.
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