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Dogfooding

Using your own product internally, such as running your own hiring or operational processes through it, to surface issues before customers do.

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Fiona Fung 01:06:02
" And and so, that was also probably a way that I felt I could still meaningfully contribute to help ho...
Jenny Wen 00:55:02
… dog food it, they repro the bugs, they spend a bunch of time with like engineers like sharing the logs and like nitpicking and stuff like that.
Alexander Embiricos 00:20:21
… It just turns out that this was one of those places where the signal we got from dogfooding is a little bit different from the signal you get from the general market because at OpenAI, we train reasoning models all day and so we're very…
Hamel+Shreya 01:13:53
… the developer is the domain expert, so you can short circuit a lot of things, and also, the developer is using it all day long, so there's a type of dogfooding and type of domain expertise that is... You can collapse the activities, you…
Peter Deng 00:30:10
There's some companies I've invested in that aren't public yet that have their own take on that, which is really interesting to be able to take whatever activity is in their product to get smarter at the thing that they are doing, again,…
Michael Truell 00:18:54
… From the very start, our product development process was really about dogfooding, and using the tool intensely every day. And we never wanted to ship anything that wasn't useful to us, and we had the benefit of doing that because ...
Rohini Pandhi 00:36:23
… something I've I've learned a lot from the Mercury folks over the last year. Even the like OG's back at Square in the early days, there was a lot with um you know, on the surface, I think Immad even says this, on the surface, it's…
Mihika Kapoor 01:27:05
… something that's very unique about Figma as compared to other companies is we have a multi-month plus long staging or dogfooding process. And so something that was really interesting to me was...
Failure 00:52:38
… And then when we did look back, first of all at that point we discovered that we hadn't been dogfooding, which also was embarrassing. Looking back, we hadn't been dogfooding in the growth team.
Gina Gotthilf 00:36:50
… And then when we did look back, first of all, at that point, we discovered that we hadn't been dogfooding, which also was embarrassing. (00:39:06): Looking back, we hadn't been dogfooding in the growth team.
Maya Prohovnik 00:09:15
… And that I think is one of the many things I've learned from dogfooding, a podcast creation app is that community piece is so important. If you don't know if anyone's listening, if you don't know what they like about it, ...
Eeke de Milliano 00:52:34
And then, the fourth thing we do is, we use Retool to build Retool. So our product roadmap lives in a Retool app.
Yamashata 00:36:06
And so I think there are ways in which, sometimes, you have to get creative to enable your company, your entire company to use a product more. Or as an example, recently, we just did calibrations for performance reviews in FigJam, and our…

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Concept

Dogfooding

Using your own product internally, such as running your own hiring or operational processes through it, to surface issues before customers do.

Context

personal

Related Concepts10

Related Frameworks27

Related Practices114

Ask about this concept

Transcript mentions

Fiona Fung 01:06:02
" And and so, that was also probably a way that I felt I could still meaningfully contribute to help ho...
Jenny Wen 00:55:02
… dog food it, they repro the bugs, they spend a bunch of time with like engineers like sharing the logs and like nitpicking and stuff like that.
Alexander Embiricos 00:20:21
… It just turns out that this was one of those places where the signal we got from dogfooding is a little bit different from the signal you get from the general market because at OpenAI, we train reasoning models all day and so we're very…
Hamel+Shreya 01:13:53
… the developer is the domain expert, so you can short circuit a lot of things, and also, the developer is using it all day long, so there's a type of dogfooding and type of domain expertise that is... You can collapse the activities, you…
Peter Deng 00:30:10
There's some companies I've invested in that aren't public yet that have their own take on that, which is really interesting to be able to take whatever activity is in their product to get smarter at the thing that they are doing, again,…
Michael Truell 00:18:54
… From the very start, our product development process was really about dogfooding, and using the tool intensely every day. And we never wanted to ship anything that wasn't useful to us, and we had the benefit of doing that because ...
Rohini Pandhi 00:36:23
… something I've I've learned a lot from the Mercury folks over the last year. Even the like OG's back at Square in the early days, there was a lot with um you know, on the surface, I think Immad even says this, on the surface, it's…
Mihika Kapoor 01:27:05
… something that's very unique about Figma as compared to other companies is we have a multi-month plus long staging or dogfooding process. And so something that was really interesting to me was...
Failure 00:52:38
… And then when we did look back, first of all at that point we discovered that we hadn't been dogfooding, which also was embarrassing. Looking back, we hadn't been dogfooding in the growth team.
Gina Gotthilf 00:36:50
… And then when we did look back, first of all, at that point, we discovered that we hadn't been dogfooding, which also was embarrassing. (00:39:06): Looking back, we hadn't been dogfooding in the growth team.
Maya Prohovnik 00:09:15
… And that I think is one of the many things I've learned from dogfooding, a podcast creation app is that community piece is so important. If you don't know if anyone's listening, if you don't know what they like about it, ...
Eeke de Milliano 00:52:34
And then, the fourth thing we do is, we use Retool to build Retool. So our product roadmap lives in a Retool app.
Yamashata 00:36:06
And so I think there are ways in which, sometimes, you have to get creative to enable your company, your entire company to use a product more. Or as an example, recently, we just did calibrations for performance reviews in FigJam, and our…