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Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

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Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#11
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This poll is so social local saas web. I'm building a wafer stepper. That's a machine that's used to make chips and LEDs. We're building the very first one of its kind now. I'm not sure what it'll sell for, but it's not something you typically get together on Kickstarter. I guess I'd be using it if I owned a semicon foundry or something.

I used to repair KLA wafer steppers and loaders back in the day as ppart of my job. Not something you would find outside a fab, lab or test facility.

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#13
Theneeds.com here.

I can't say I use it daily, but surely more than 1/week. My interests are tech and quite specific, and HN is better from that point of view, but for general news I use Theneeds. I'm also a person that doesn't post/like/share too much (neither on HN, Theneeds, Twitter, Facebook...).

My co-founders however use it daily. It's their primary source of news & things to share. Sometimes, we also use it to stream the "hot" music at home ;) Moreover, we recently added to the team a couple of "enthusiastic"... pretty cool (and satisfactory) imho!

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#18
In many cases this isn't possible. For example if you're making software to manage a hair salon then you're not going to be using it.

Outside of software for developers and IT I suspect the majority of companies don't use their own software, which is counter to what most people here believe.

Re: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

#20
I am building https://reesd.com. When it is ready I will use it since I initially started it for myself. It will be used for backup and file store, as-is but also for the other services I plan to offer (Docker image hosting, scp-triggered rebuild, http://packages.assertive.io, and more).
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