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Dogfooding isn't a silver bullet. Remember Google Buzz [0]? It's been used successfully within Google for a while before being released. It turned out to be a d
by maltalex 6y ago
Dogfooding isn't a silver bullet. Remember Google Buzz [0]? It's been used successfully within Google for a while before being released. It turned out to be a disaster partially due to the fact that it was built (or iterated on) with Google's internal users in mind.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
- runawaybottle 6y agoBut Google Buzz, if tested internally, was well ahead of Slack and slack-like chat applications currently available (as expected for a chat application tested within the context of a company). Someone is lacking proper vision at Google. Hindsight is 20/20 of course.