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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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Post by MarkSweep »

r0s wrote: post #6
skrebbel wrote: post #2

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.

You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.

I hooked up a Xbox 360 controller to our wafer handling robot for fun.

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

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Post by daily »

Yes but not as much as I like to. The guys who build a project management tool may benefit the most I think.

We are building a site to engage people to write daily (in English), www.dailythem.es, and while I know using the site more is very useful, I have to keep thinking about the business direction and figure out user demographic before I spend all days using my own product.

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

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Post by skrebbel »

r0s wrote: post #6
skrebbel wrote: post #2

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.

You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.

We would, had we not needed 10-ish other machines to complete the process. Our machine only does the 'difficult' part (lithography), not all the nasty chemistry parts.

Admittedly, this means that my description of what the machine does was cutting some corners. Ridiculously many, actually, but ok :)

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

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Post by admnor »

I make Zudio (http://zud.io), a tool for managing Azure storage, which uses Azure storage for its own system data. I've made it a goal since day one of developing it that I wouldn't use any other tool, and I've successfully stuck to that. It's been an excellent way to drive the development forward.
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