Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Mister_Snuggles » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:05 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #2

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.

Yup.

I spend my days working on an ERP system. Apart from entering my weekly timesheet and the occasional expense claim, I don't use the system. If I wanted to enter payments and reconcile bank accounts, I would have become an accountant.

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

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Post by hendi_ » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:06 PM UTC

Yes, I use BunkerApp [1] almost every day to track my time, to manage tasks and to invoice my clients.

[1]: https://www.bunkerapp.com/

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

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Post by code_duck » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:08 PM UTC

One of my project started out as something that I built for myself. When I got popular though, I had no time left to use it for its original purpose as I had to put all of my time into development and customer service. Unfortunately I ended up becoming very detached from the market for which I was developing.

My other current projects are e-commerce related, for other people. I don't shop at their stores in particular, but I feel like shopping elsewhere on the web gives me similar insight.

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

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Post by gametheoretic » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:08 PM UTC

jeroen94704 wrote: post #38

skrebbel wrote: post #2

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.

Exactly. The idea that you should "eat your own dogfood" doesn't make a lot of sense if the product is (to draw from my personal experience) an x-ray machine, mechanical respirator, semiconductor metrology tool or electron microscope.

Or dogfood.

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

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Post by pitzips » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:09 PM UTC

api wrote: post #10

Yes: https://www.zerotier.com/ As I've been developing it I started using it to sync stuff, access machines remotely, etc.

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

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Post by thenduks » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:10 PM UTC

I made Bugrocket (https://bugrocket.com) in my spare time intending to convince everyone at work we should drop Bugzilla and use it instead (it worked :)).

My latest project is CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net) and just due to its nature I use it less than Bugrocket. I've only made one course so far (https://coursecraft.net/courses/z9NcY).

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

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Post by shykes » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

Docker is built and tested with Docker :)

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

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Post by barking » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:13 PM UTC

Work with it 3 days a week, work on it 4 days a week. I have no life

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

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Post by pvnick » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

I'm creating a leangains diet planner and exercise+nutrition recommendation system. I'm nearing the end of my cut, during which I've lost 15 pounds and gone from 20%-13% bodyfat in about three months with significant strength improvements. After I'm done I'll go for a few months bulking while I finish up the documentation (lots of scientific studies to comb through!) and then I'll be launching. I use the software I've written for it everyday.

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

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Post by cubecz » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 7:23 PM UTC

I work in a digital agency serving corporate clients. We have build Costlocker (https://costlocker.com) a tool for monitoring our project costs and profitability.

We desperately looked for such tool to use it ourselves, but found nothing. So we decided to build it. Only in the process of making it, we have realised that there must be other agencies that need it too.

In the end we have a product that we use ourselves everyday and sell it to other agencies too. What's interesting, we are still learning how to use it in the best way possible and we then share our knowledge with other users. So the benefit of using the product yourself is not only in requirements specification and testing, but in workflow and usage best–practices.