It seems like every "great" piece of software, e.g. the operating systems of Apple and Microsoft, the search engine of Google, AWS inside Amazon, Facebook etc was dogfooded.
What's the biggest exception to this rule?
Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#2None.
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#3The US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (DDSACCS), which sends emergency action messages to nuclear forces.
Not entirely software .. but an example of a system not used in house .. or at all ... yet.
Greatest? Hmm. Hard to say.
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#4None.
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#5Well software for non-software people...
Like I doubt that people writing autoCAD are ones who needed it in the first place.
Maybe I am wrong.
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#6Do companies like Oracle and SAP run their own business on their ERP platforms? That might be the biggest one.
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#7Well software for non-software people... Like I doubt that people writing autoCAD are ones who needed it in the first place. Maybe I am wrong.
I don't think you're wrong. Most of my career has been working on specialty software that no individual (including myself) could use, and therefore can't be dogfooded.
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#8How is facebook dogfooded? Do they buy facebook ads?
And wasn’t windows originally created as a product for sale? I don’t remember microsoft starting as hardware company. Maybe that is why windows sucks :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#9The US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (DDSACCS), which sends emergency action messages to nuclear forces. Not entirely software .. but an example of a system not used in house .. or at all ... yet. Greatest? Hmm. Hard to say.
Nuclear deterrence means that a nation can counter while/after being nuked, and it has to demonstrate this capacity confidently enough to deter any country that would nuke them.
It would be an amazing system. Cut the head off and up to 20% of the world is dead or injured, followed by the socioeconomic collapse due to destruction at this scale.
Re: Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?
#10Do companies like Oracle and SAP run their own business on their ERP platforms? That might be the biggest one.
I'm pretty sure they do, but quite a few parts of the Oracle applications suite are acquired so probably not those. I'm sure sap would use sap erp, from what I've seen almost all big European companies use sap for payroll.