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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?

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Post by code_duck »

code_duck wrote: post #43

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 particula…

Phew, so bad at proofreading on my lovely mobile device. HN, please forgive me.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

You mean the one I build on as employee, or the one I build on as sideproject? Sideprojects are usually things I use daily, other stuff... well let's not say anything about that :)

This is why I believe in open source so much. It's all not-for-profit so it has to be worth something to you or you wouldn't work on it. This makes that it's always something useful, at least to you, and probably to others.

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Post by Heliosmaster »

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.

oh another ASML employee :p

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

I'm building software for a specific part of a large bank (I'm being intentionally vague), but since I don't deal in said area of said bank (only have a checkings/savings account, and at a different bank to boot), I don't really use it. I probably should, though; working with mock data served from localhost (or artificially delaying it (it's a mobile webapp)) instead of a real crappy 3g connection just isn't the same.

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Post by johnrob »

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.

I wouldn't say "social local saas web", but rather "new product category". If you're building a new version of something that already exists, then the original question (do you use it?) is not really relevant.

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

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Post by chmod775 »

sixseven wrote: post #61

I have an Android app that help people learning Japanese to have a easier time reading Japanese text file. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zyz.mobile Originally, I wrote it for myself so that I can check meanings of Japanese word without an Internet connection while reading Japanese text. But after I finished writing it, I lost interest in learning Japanese. So I don't use it, but I continue to put…

I can hardly express how much I appreciate this. I started learning Japanese a few weeks ago, 2 hours every day.

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

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Post by johmas »

We make mattresses. Every member on our team sleeps on them each night. It's absolutely critical for us to have this first hand experience, especially as our team becomes larger with varying body types and personal preferences.

We iterate on our own internal feedback in addition to our customer's.

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Post by jejacks0n »

I work on Teaspoon (a javascript test runner for rails) that has support for Jasmine and Mocha -- I don't use it every day, but the team does use it on a daily basis. The thing is that people have submitted a bunch of pull requests for features that I don't personally use (QUnit, Angular, etc.) and that has made it harder to maintain those features.

I struggle with saying no, because I want the library to be useful, but I also don't want to have to maintain and potentially break features that I don't personally use.

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