Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
by spartanatreyu on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:44PM
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^ This.
When dogfooding, you have to be very careful that you don't end up in a bubble and only see your own needs as the priority.
There's a propensity for developers to start using their own products then changing it to suit themselves thinking that the regular users use the same product the same way. You end up with this mismatch of expectations and it can even get so bad that the developers don't believe the users who tell them that things need to change.
When dogfooding, you have to be very careful that you don't end up in a bubble and only see your own needs as the priority.
There's a propensity for developers to start using their own products then changing it to suit themselves thinking that the regular users use the same product the same way. You end up with this mismatch of expectations and it can even get so bad that the developers don't believe the users who tell them that things need to change.