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How Dogfood Makes Us Better Devs

Jess Lee on July 24, 2017

Background I originally wrote this article for UNTOUCHD, a lifestyle magazine for women inspired by tech. The magazine is beautiful, ins...
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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Totally agree. Seeing a bug live is great and makes me want to fix it, because I literally can (try to) fix it right then and there.

Dogfooding has been progressively valuable for me because I find myself thinking a lot more about how the user's perspective. Plus it makes the job a million times easier and more rewarding because I completely enjoy and relate to the product.

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Jess Lee

+1 @pandyzhao for dogfoodin' RIGHT NOW.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Gettin' real meta over here.

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Ben Halpern

We're very privileged to get to work on something we want to use.

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Michael "notriddle" Howell

Yeah, that is a thing. I wrote bors-ng for my company, but what my company works on is material tracking software for medical labs, and I'm not working in a medical lab and have never been a PhD.

So... we just need a different customer feedback process.