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I also created the Min CSS framework, an extremely tiny (995 bytes) CSS framework, which I use in all the websites I make. http://minfwk.com
While "eating your own dogfood" doesn't work in every industry or product (as some of the top comments are discussing), I'm a firm believer that if you're developing something intended for a typical person (developer, casual user, what have you) to use every day, you really should be using it every day as well. I've used too many products that were "mature" yet felt so poorly designed and developed that you'd have to wonder if anyone at the company ever touched them beyond basic testing.
I work at Microsoft on the IE F12 web dev tools and use IE and F12 both at work and at home.
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.
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-pro…
We needed to develop both prototypes and production apps faster, so we built tooling...which turned into Exponential.io (tooling as a service).
> seeing the pain our sales teams actually had while doing sales.
This is a great way to find a product. At a minimum, you know you're solving one company's problems (your own). As it's likely there are similar companies, then it's a good indicator that there is potential for the product.
It's actually a big part of the culture at Riot Games, the idea is that we're trying to be the most player focused company so it is important that we all play, it helps us make a better game.
I've built a site that's like Goodreads but for video games ( http://www.grouvee.com ). It lets users catalog, rate, and share their video game collections. I'm on it every day almost because I play a lot of video games, and I love looking through people's reviews and collections.
Great idea, but I wish it had retro games as well. Retro gamers are the most likely group to really want to catalog everything.
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 s…