Dogfooding
Using your own product internally — 'eating your own dog food.' The fastest way to discover what your customers already knew and your roadmap ignored.
Heard in the wild
“We dogfood the app for our own facility requests, which is why the bug got fixed fast.”
Tone check: Technical
Genuinely powerful practice. Companies that don't dogfood ship products with an unmistakable 'never used it' texture.