YouBrokeProd
Provide engineers with hands-on, high-pressure incident response training using browser-based simulations of real-world production outages.
Founding Story
Created out of frustration with poor incident response training that relies on unread runbooks; aimed at building muscle memory for real 3 AM outages.
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Leadership
Founders
Steven Leggett
Director of Software Development & AI Strategy at Empire Life (2023-Present). Previously Software Development Manager at Amazon Ads (2022-2023), Software Development Manager at Shopify (2022), and Director of Architecture at Empire Life (2018-2021). Founder & CEO of Wave Point Media Inc (2005-2014).
Executive Team
Steven Leggett
Founder & CEO
Director of Software Development & AI Strategy at Empire Life (2023-Present). Previously Software Development Manager at Amazon Ads (2022-2023), Software Development Manager at Shopify (2022), and Director of Architecture at Empire Life (2018-2021). Founder & CEO of Wave Point Media Inc (2005-2014).
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS (Individual and Team tiers)
Pricing Tiers
2 starter scenarios, 1 incident per day, global leaderboard, post-mortem explanations.
All scenarios unlocked, unlimited incidents, detailed root-cause breakdowns, analytics, streak freezes.
Up to 10 engineer seats, team leaderboard, manager reports, custom scenarios, admin dashboard.
Unlimited seats, custom scenarios for your stack, compliance reporting, SSO/SAML, API access.
Target Markets
- Enterprise SRE Teams
- DevOps Professionals
- Platform Engineering Teams
- SRE and DevOps engineer onboarding
- Upskilling staff for incident triage
- Team skill assessment and gap analysis
- Preparing on-call engineers for high-pressure outages
- Individual engineers from major tech companies
History & Milestones
Official launch and 'Show HN' announcement of YouBrokeProd, a browser-based incident response trainer.
Featured coverage by Tom's Hardware and trending on Hacker News for simulated Claude Code Terraform incident.
Launch of Sugar (roboticforce/sugar), an autonomous AI agent framework.
1 AI Tool by YouBrokeProd
A browser-based incident response training game where SREs and DevOps engineers debug real production outages in a simulated terminal across 10 scenarios of varying difficulty.
