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1) read WTF / why have I not ran for it
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.
Exactly. The idea that you should "eat your own dogfood" doesn't make a lot of sense if the product is (to draw from my personal experience) an x-ray machine, mechanical respirator, semiconductor metrology tool or electron microscope.
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…
It's great to dogfood, but IMO its not enough. Many customers will have different ways of using the product from you and different workflows. I'd recommend doing heavy customer development very early on to understand those differences.
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Exactly. The idea that you should "eat your own dogfood" doesn't make a lot of sense if the product is (to draw from my personal experience) an x-ray machine, mechanical respirator, semiconductor metrology tool or electron microscope.
Or dogfood. http://iknowthestory.shutup
I'm the architect of ElectricAccelerator ( http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator.p... ), a high-performance replacement for GNU make. I use it every day for all my builds, including builds of ElectricAccelerator itself.
(disclaimer: my company https://circleci.com is a competitor to the direction you guys are taking with Continuous Delivery)
Unfortunately tech types like here on HN… not so much