Let me suggest an opposite approach: don't be your best user. Consider: you are an entreprenur/hacker. If you are also your best user, then your best user is an entrepreneur/hacker. This leads to several undesirable effects. For one, your users will value the product less because they could write it themselves (or they think they could). For another, you're far more likely to end up in a crowded space with many compe…
This is a very good point. Forrst's community is geared towards other entrepreneurs and hackers, so the fact that Kyle was his own best user actually helped perpetuate the site's growth, while this wouldn't have worked as well with other less hacker-minded sites. It all depends on what kinds of people you want to attract and what kind of community you want to build.