{"id":501,"date":"2010-01-06T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2010-01-06T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:27:21","slug":"eat-your-own-dog-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/01\/06\/eat-your-own-dog-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat your own dog food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not literally talking about what lister had to do: (2 minutes 30 in)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JkIJcVYQZkk&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JkIJcVYQZkk&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Nope, I&#8217;m talking about the phrase often used in software development, or any business these days, which means &#8216;use your own product&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I think there is likely a decent correlation between successful businesses, and those that eat their own dog food. I play my games a bit, not enough tbh, although that primarily a lack of time. I&#8217;m going to set aside a few hours today to just play through some challenges. I have found so many bugs, and had so many ideas, post-release, just from experiencing my own games with the mindset of an end user.<br \/>\nIf you are an indie dev, and there is something, anything, no matter how small that disappoints, bugs or annoys you about your game, then fix it. <strong>Fix it now<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<ul>\nToday<\/ul>\n<p>. Tomorrow you will find something else that needs fixing, and fix that too. This is how games go from good to really good.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sadly not everyone eats their own dog food. I bought two products recently that did not. One was a picture frame with a tiny hook on the back to place over a nail. The hook was tiny, and bent easily and was in the middle of a large frame. The sheer physics of it made it literally impossible to hang it on the wall by the hook. They *never* ate that dog food.<\/p>\n<p>Then I bought a TV cupboard thing, one of those ones with a shelf for all of the DVD player stuff, and a hole cut out the back for the cables to tidily go through.<br \/>\nThe hole was too small to put a plug through, and most EU appliances now have moulded plugs you can&#8217;t remove. The hole was effectively useless. They *never* ate that dog food.<\/p>\n<p>Bon appetit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not literally talking about what lister had to do: (2 minutes 30 in) Nope, I&#8217;m talking about the phrase often used in software development, or any business these days, which means &#8216;use your own product&#8217;. I think there is likely a decent correlation between successful businesses, and those that eat their own dog food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Eat your own dog food<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/01\/06\/eat-your-own-dog-food\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}