🪞 Do you use your own product every day?

Yes, and it's humbling. PromoPilot is an SEO platform, and promopilot.link is its own first client. Our Search Console is connected to SEO Radar, and this month we ran small link campaigns on eight of our own blog posts, the same way a client would.

The useful part is the stuff you'd never see from the admin side. This month our own Search Console showed the site answering on www and an old mail. subdomain as duplicates. Reading your own reports the way a client reads them is the fastest QA we have.

Absolutely! It's become my most-used app :) Frankly, that's how I decided to move from "works-on-my-machine" to a real SaaS. I think it is an amazing opportunity to be both - the builder and the user. You still don't have the same angle as "just a user", but it's a great perspective. At least, you can make sure that the product works for people/companies like you.

For me, that’s one of the most beautiful parts of having a product - using it while continuing to build and improve it.

Can't agree more!

I love this question. I use @Agenda Hero Magic and @Dates by Agenda Hero every single day. It's how I know it's needed. I forward emails to magic@agendahero.com and get back stuctured calendar events every day. I then add them to google or my Agenda Hero family calendar. I use the text reminders weekly, they save my life as a mom of two little ones. I also do a ton of advocacy and volunteer work outside of my career at Agenda Hero and I use it to share public calendars for community events. At this point in my life, I don't think I could build or work for something I wasn't using daily. Just look at this cute halloween event calendar I built https://agendahero.com/page/seacoasthalloween

Same here. Holina Factory started as an internal tool. I had two GPUs sitting in the office and wanted marketing clips for my own business without paying per render. It became a product because I used it every week and kept fixing what annoyed me. Using it yourself is the fastest QA team you'll ever have, though you do get blind to the things only a brand new user trips over.

Absolutely, We use our own products every day. 😊

At YourGPT, using the product ourselves helps us understand what works, what needs improvement, and what we can build next. Being both the builders and users gives us a different perspective.

The best feedback often comes from using what you create.

I don’t believe developers who don’t use their own apps can create products that are truly useful and easy to use. After all, inspiration comes from real life, and only through firsthand use can you discover a product’s shortcomings in the actual user experience. I developed Readify AI, and I use it every day to listen to books. This firsthand experience helps me identify areas for improvement and continuously make it a better product.

Every day, multiple times. I built CommandX — a command palette for Chrome — because I was doing the same 10 actions on repeat with no shortcut. Now I double-tap Cmd/Ctrl on other people's laptops expecting it to work. Most telling sign I've shipped something that actually fits.

Honestly, Sortfully started because I needed it. My work inbox was a mess, Outlook rules were a pain to keep up with, and the other tools I tried either did way too much or didn’t work how I wanted. I just wanted something simple that put emails into folders by who sent them, without me having to think about it.

So I built that, and it’s been running on my own mailbox every day since. Most mornings I don’t even notice it, which is kind of the point. My inbox has driven half the roadmap too. At one point I had so many tiny folders I spent an evening deleting them by hand... which is how “Quiet folders” became a feature. I hope to implement Gmail at some point too so I can also get a handle on my personal emails.

Being able to use your product every day really helps shape what it'll look like.

This is such a good question and I cannot skip to answer. And YES.

I made @OpenMarkdown and indeed I used every single day, from daily plan to a sticker notes to even writing formal documents.

As my task varies, I gradually build up new features.

I still like the idea to directly use my project agent to help me with writing (aka, agent co-edit).

Yes, I use Zillinity daily. I originally made it for myself so that I could have a way to check in and make space for myself during the day.

It also helps with spotting bugs and seeing how I can better improve the experience.