India, July 9 -- DoorDash users woke up to frustration Wednesday morning as the food delivery platform suddenly stopped working. Both customers and drivers found themselves logged out of the app, with no clear explanation from the company. Reports of the outage started pouring in just before sunrise, disrupting breakfast orders and leaving Dashers unable to log in for their early-morning shifts, according to outage tracking site DownDetector.

The disruptions affected not only customers trying to place breakfast orders but also Dashers-DoorDash's fleet of gig drivers-who rely on the app for their early-morning income.

DownDetector reported that at least 71% of the complaints were related to problems with the Dasher App, which is used by ...