šŖ Do you use your own product every day?
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For us, RunEvr is the environment where we actually build RunEvr =)
For me, thatās one of the most beautiful parts of having a product - using it while continuing to build and improve it.
We do our everyday calls there, share ideas, chat, store files, do reviews, complete tasksā¦
And all of this is happening inside the same environment weāre building to help other teams do exactly that!
Kind of a mirror within a mirror =D
So Iām curious:
Do you use your own product every day?
Or do you mostly interact with it through the code while building it for further use, or for only users use?
Would love to hear how it works for you
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I use my own product to create promotional videos for my other products, which makes me both the builder and the customer. Itās the ultimate test of whether what Iām building actually delivers value.
@prodkillerĀ Yes, thatās great! Iād be interested to know more about your video creation product. Are you planning to launch it here?
@adanaĀ Yup!!! I'm launching it here. You can get a look at it here - White Mask Content
Feel free to drop in your reviews & feedback
@prodkillerĀ Wow, cool!
Isn't there any free plan, or some starter tokens to try firts?
Yes, between all of us, someone is always using Querri to analyze our data.
@amy_ingramĀ Do you face situations in your team when someone has one UX opinion and another team member has a different one? And how do you decide on the final implementation?
Yes, but only the daily list. I open Top10Q each morning to cap the day at 10, then I'm in the code the rest of the day ā so I dogfood the habit and still miss bugs on screens I don't hit on a normal Tuesday.
@mostafahosseiniĀ Am I right in guessing that your product is about doing 10 tasks a day?
@adanaĀ Yes. It focuses on your top 10 most important tasks using the 80/20 principle. It also gives each day a theme and automatically assigns tasks to the right day. For example, if Thursday is your Marketing Day, it will assign marketing tasks to Thursday.
@mostafahosseiniĀ wow ! Impressive!
How do you decide which tasks to prioritize? Prioritization itself can be a bottleneck...
Using it for real work seems much more useful than clicking through a demo
I would still try a fresh account regularly though because your daily workspace hides the rough edges a new user sees
@al_kubĀ I really like what you bring to the discussion. Your examples show that you understand good UX really well.
New accounts can reveal so many new angles, and you also mentioned empty states in another thread - theyāre similar edge cases and really important ones.
Yes, and it is the main reason it is still alive. My own weeks are the test data, so a sync bug shows up as my Tuesday going missing, not as a ticket.
@ghaisdahdouhĀ What does your product do? =)
@adanaĀ It's called FocusHours! I've been a bit obsessed with tracking my study hours since I was young š I started by timing my study sessions with a clock, then moved to paper sheets, then Google Keep, until things got a bit messy.
So I built a little dashboard for myself to track focus hours by category (work, study, etc.) and see how it all adds up over days, weeks, and months. Figured I'd share it in case it's useful to someone else too!
It's free and doesn't require an account.
@ghaisdahdouhĀ Wow, nice and easy dashboard!
Liked , I'll explore it =) Thanks for sharing
@adanaĀ Thanks, glad you like it! 182 hours logged on it so far, and many more to go š
Every single day, and not by choice š
Iām job hunting myself, and I got so tired of applying into the void that I built MadeVisa to fix it. So my mornings now look like this: open my own site, check my CV matches, applyā¦ and then report the companies that ghost me on my own GhostGood board. š»
Itās the most honest QA there is. When a feature annoys me as a job seeker, it gets fixed that same day. When a company ghosts me, it gets a review that same day too.
Mirror within a mirror indeed, except mine sometimes stares back and says āno response after 3 weeksā š
@quliyevoqtayĀ Haha =D Thatās interesting..
Are you going to go live with MadeVisa? For example, launch it here on PH?
Absolutely. But could it be a double-edged sword? I made a product that I really wanted to use and interact with myself. I consider myself to have high standards and I feel my app is the best at what it does. On the other hand, could that make it less popular for the general public because I was too focused on my own sensibilities? Guess I'll find out on Wednesday!
@jessej23Ā Ooo, are you going to launch your product? =) What is it about?
@adanaĀ It's called Zetfeed. It's a feed reader service that syncs with all devices and has a lot of neat features not found in any of the other ones that I've come across. It's naturally made for daily use.. getting news updates, tracking shows, concerts, sports, stocks, etc. I guess I would be in trouble if it wasn't something I wanted to use every day!
@jessej23Ā Thatās really interesting! Iād love to give it a try.
No, but only because our product is for a specific group of people :) They use it every day
@paul_kovalenkoĀ Super interesting whoās the product for? What problem does it solve?
Youāve definitely left some intrigue =D
@adanaĀ haha :) it's for revenue cycle management automation for long term care facilities, so as I said, very specific
@paul_kovalenkoĀ Yes=) and what inspired you to build it?
Every day. I design in my own Linux graphics app, so the bugs I hit while making real work get fixed before anything on the roadmap. The biggest lesson: daily use surfaces the boring states (crash recovery, empty files, slow disks) that demos never do, and those are what users actually judge you on.
@michaelh_rleyĀ Yes, I agree. Are you a designer yourself?
@adanaĀ Yep, I design my own marks and layouts, and I built Omadesign because I wanted pro-level design tools that run natively on Linux.
@michaelh_rleyĀ Great ! Wish you lots of luck =)
Absolutely, every day!
The plugin was built for our in-house designersā everyday workflow, to save everyoneās time.
We shared it by chance with other designers in the stock photo industry, and it was quite well received.
People kept asking for new features, and somehow our engineer turned it into a real product!š¤£
@yun_chu_chenĀ Wow, thatās great! What does the plugin do?
@adanaĀ Itās a plugin toolkit for Adobe Illustrator, with tools for lettering, coloring, gradients, color effects and workflow.
Our newest one is the Streak Tool: draw a line across a photo, drag outward, and its colors stretch into beautiful bands. š Actually, weāre preparing our first launch here on Product Hunt. Any tips from your experience?
@yun_chu_chenĀ Wow ! Wish you good luck =)
Connecting on linkedin, happy to share some tips with you.