It's amazing how many people consider dogfooding, before going public, to be a waste of time. Not only do you discover a whole bunch of bugs and difficult uses

It's amazing how many people consider dogfooding, before going public, to be a waste of time. Not only do you discover a whole bunch of bugs and difficult uses you didn't anticipate, it ends up being stronger when the public or partners are eventually let loose on it. The internet is rife with v1 APIs that don't have version designators and are deprecated in favor of a version two that was released to "clean things up" but which never really supplanted the version one.