The Incident Challenge: Production Debugging Games for Software Engineers
The Incident Challenge is a production debugging game where engineers find root causes, fix systems, and compete on a leaderboard. AI can assist but human engineering intuition is key to winning.
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The Incident Challenge
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Production Debugging Games for Software Engineers
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Production Debugging Games for Software Engineers
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Compete in realistic incident simulations where you find the root cause, fix the system, and race the leaderboard.
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Hey Product Hunt!
I’m excited to share The Incident Challenge with you.
The idea started from something we kept seeing: AI can write code now. A lot of code.
But the moment production breaks, the hard part usually isn’t writing the fix.
It’s understanding what actually happened. Where to look. What to ignore. Which weird detail matters.
That’s the (human) skill we wanted to turn into a sport. So we built The Incident Challenge: a production debugging game for engineers.
You get dropped into a realistic broken system. What you get:
Logs, code, configs, docs, architecture diagrams, misleading symptoms, and a ticking clock.
Your job: Find the root cause. Fix it. Deploy the solution. Beat the leaderboard.
And yes, you can use AI agents.
But the challenge is designed so AI alone usually isn’t enough.
It might help you move faster, but you still need real engineering instincts to win.
The idea pretty much exploded on reddit, and today we have more than 300 devs participating.
Some people solve the same incident in minutes. Others take much longer.
That gap is exactly what makes it fun.
The challenge is live now, so feel free to give it spin, and maybe you might win!
Would genuinely love your feedback, ideas for future incidents, and brutal honesty on whether this feels like something engineers would want to play.
Come debug with us 🤘
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