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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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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'v…

rfnslyr, it looks like you're hellbanned. better get in touch with pvnick through some other route.

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

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Every day, but only for parts of the year. (Do I take the average and say "at least once a week?")

It's interactive teaching software (in-class and online) that we've used in the course when it runs, but the course only runs for part of the year.

http://github.com/impressory/impressory

"Supercollaborative" teaching of software engineering is my main project; this was written because I found existing teaching systems didn't support collaborative classes online, and live-interaction in-class, particularly well.

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

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Yes definitely. I personally see this as a key ingredient in order to make a project really work. Of course this doesn't work for things like an X-Ray machine, but for a SaaS company like CloudPelican it does.

We currently use it to investigate root-causes of disruptions, track down bugs in the development and staging environment, and most important: monitor our entire infrastructure. This is also in line with our company vision that should allow users to have a single overview on their entire stack of servers, websites and applications. This will reduce time spent on digging through log files, switching between lots of fragmented SaaS tools, et cetera.

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

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When I develop something for my own needs, most of the times I'll make it into a product. That includes mostly small web apps like disposable email, short URL, a guestbook service, a blog software, a CMS.

One of my projects (online appointment scheduling), though, I started using only recently for a reddit cake day reminder. People register and the software sends them an email when their reddit cake day is coming up.

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