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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?

#91
i built a few jobs boards (http://djangojobbers.com, http://railsjobbers.com). If I see any interesting django job published I apply to it (usually pointing out you are the system developer grants you some extra points).

Also I built a password manager (https://identee.com). I am finishing a pro version of it (with a Command Line Interface client, instead of browser based), which is the one I am using. Indeed I am the only one using it since its not live yet ;-)

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

#93
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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.

oh another ASML employee :p

Big EHV representation here :)

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

#95
I'm working on a website that sells top-end, hand-made fountain pens at $2,000 apiece. They'd be wasted on me -- lousy handwriting -- but boy do I want one.

I'm having to restrain myself from telling you, at length, just how beautiful and desirable they are. I would LOVE to have one of those things in my hand at some kind of ceremonial contract signing. And if someone asked me "Where did you get that pen?" I'd just swoon with happiness.

So I don't need it. I don't use it. But I'm still very much eating my own delicious dogfood.

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

#98
Very much so, in fact Close.io " rel="nofollow">http://close.io/> was built out of our own sales team's need for better sales software / we hated all the CRMs we tried. Then it turned into its own product. We would have never known how to make Close.io better than existing legacy CRMs except for seeing the pain our sales teams actually had while doing sales.

Now the entire focus of the company is on this internal-project-turned-product and now we get to use Close.io to sell Close.io, which is great. We get to solve our own problems (usually) and others benefit from it (and our product gets better).

Wrote more about it here: http://blog.close.io/coworkers-as-your-first-customers-your-...

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

#99
I'm a co-founder at WonderProxy https://wonderproxy.com/ I launched it to help a friend who was in QA. Our own site doesn't do GeoIP stuff, so I don't need it.

I enjoy working on it, have quite enjoyed the site re-write (https://admin.wonderproxy.com/) but my day to day life doesn't need to route traffic through Brazil.

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

#100
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Yep using http://www.yearloop.com/ every day. Each day it sends me an email with picture from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!

Sounds similar in concept to http://timehop.com/ ?
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