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I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

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324 points bilsbie | 3 comments | 21 Aug 25 15:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.629s | source
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theshrike79 ◴[21 Aug 25 16:20 UTC] No.44974606[source]▶
Dogfooding works
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1. GuinansEyebrows ◴[21 Aug 25 18:43 UTC] No.44976480[source]▶
difficult to do unless you're building tooling/personal productivity stuff. i don't know how a company would dogfood a point-of-sale platform, for example.
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2. theshrike79 ◴[21 Aug 25 19:21 UTC] No.44976920[source]▶
Like this. =)

Force the people making it to use it for a while. Even just a day.

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3. GuinansEyebrows ◴[21 Aug 25 20:22 UTC] No.44977596[source]▶
fair!