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I don't think it's a "need" but I do enjoy using it and built it because it's something I wanted.
If you're interested I just did a write-up on it http://bradjasper.com/focus.html and open-sourced it http://github.com/bradjasper/focus
My goal lately is to try and find stuff that I like building and that has a market—not having to pick either or.
As a result, we use the plugins themselves quite often, including on the website itself. Its definitely a great motivator to fix bugs!
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.
On previous projects where geolocation/locali[s/z]ation was a high priority, we've had to rely on either a hodgepodge of VPN credentials or poking someone on Skype! This is 100x better. Great work!
The "eat your own dogfood" approach has never sat well with me. I think of Microsoft forcing it's employees to use Bing and Windows - rather than improving the products it seemed to lower morale and ignored the reasons why people were choosing Google or Apple.
If the idea is to improve the product by actually using it I think a better approach would be to "eat everyone's dogfood including your own," because so many good ideas come in bits and pieces from competition and new ideas can come from surveying the entire market to see what's missing. It's not just about experiencing the good/bad of your own product, but seeing where you fit in the market, who would choose your product, and why.