Hey there, thanks for sharing your question and all the details! 
You’re not alone—many folks have run into the “Your app is waking up!” or “in the oven” issue on Streamlit Community Cloud, even after deleting and redeploying the app. This usually points to a deployment, routing, or platform issue, not your code. Official docs and community reports recommend first rebooting your app from your workspace or Cloud logs, which forces a fresh build and often resolves temporary glitches. If that doesn’t work, deleting and redeploying (which you’ve already tried) is the next step. Sometimes, these issues are on Streamlit’s backend and resolve themselves after a while or after a platform update.
Unfortunately, there’s no user-accessible way to clear the build cache or reset routing beyond rebooting or redeploying. If the problem persists after these steps, it’s likely a temporary infrastructure issue or a backend routing/cache problem that only Streamlit support can resolve. You can monitor the Streamlit forums for outage reports or submit a support case as described in the official deployment troubleshooting docs. If you’re still stuck, please share a minimum reproducible example and your requirements.txt so the community can help debug further! Community members, feel free to jump in with your insights or similar experiences.
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