Web app occasionally gets net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED - angularjs

I created a simple web app card game that is currently in development mode.
The way it works is simple: users log in and start playing. To play, the user clicks on three cards that make a match and clicks submit. Submit sends the names of the chosen cards to the server to be saved. Then the next round is loaded and presented.
However, in testing, some of my users are getting stuck in the game after clicking submit.
An investigation in the console reveals a message:
POST https://myproj.herokuapp.com/api/user/billy/saveResult
net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
I can't figure out why this is happening. The save mechanism works for other rounds. Why does this randomly happen suddenly to some rounds?
Any ideas?

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED is given when the request can not reach the DNS server and therefore can not translate the given name into an IP sequence. This might be given to a bad connection to internet resulting to null network service, for example.
You could try to point directly to the IP address, so the request does not need to be translated and can be pointed direclty to the server. So instead of having:
POST https://myproj.herokuapp.com/api/user/billy/saveResult
You could try:
POST https://54.225.236.39/api/user/billy/saveResult
Please, also note that this could also be caused by a wrong Proxy Settings SetUp in case you have one.
Hope it helps!

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