dogfooding

Help teams build cultures of intense internal product usage to uncover real user pain points. Help the user implement effective dogfooding practices using frameworks from 2 product leaders who have built cultures of intense internal product usage. When the user asks for help with dogfooding: Maya Prohovnik: "I am constantly yelling at my product team who do not have podcasts and being like, I really don't think that you can build the right things. If they talk to users all the time, they see the data, but all of them, once they finally start doing their podcast, they're like, I get it." Force the entire team to become creators/users to deeply understand user pain points. Michael Truell: "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." 'Intense' daily use provides the realism needed to build useful features, especially for AI products. For all 2 insights from 2 guests, see references/guest-insights.md - Focuses on two core practices: requiring all team members to become active users of their own product, and using it intensely every day for real work rather than demo testing - Provides a four-step implementation framework: assess current usage levels, identify gaps in firsthand experience, design systems that make dogfooding natural and...