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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CommandX is the extension I use most in Chrome ā I built it because I was irritating myself opening the same tabs the same way every morning, and I just kept making it better until it stopped. Best kind of dogfood: annoyed into existence.
@avinashbussaĀ And how does your extension handle that repetitive work now? =)
Every day. I built Inexra for social media agencies, and my own two brands' Instagram and Facebook run through it: the DMs, the scheduling, the planning. Using it myself caught one of my favorite bugs. I'd reply to a DM from the Instagram app on my phone, and Inexra would still show it as waiting for a reply, because it only counted replies sent from inside Inexra. No customer had reported it yet. I just kept getting annoyed at my own inbox.
@kaitlyn_brickerĀ very interesting.. How many platforms does Inexra support?
@adanaĀ Four so far. Instagram and Facebook are the core: DMs, comments, scheduling and analytics. YouTube is live for scheduling and analytics too. TikTok posting is built and waiting on TikTokās app review before I can open it to everyone. LinkedIn is next. Iāve applied for their community management API access. Iām going platform by platform because each one has different rules about what you can do through the API, and Iād rather support three platforms properly than seven halfway.
@kaitlyn_brickerĀ Yes, I like the approach of supporting properly and going one by one.
Whish you lots of success throughout your way <3
@adana congrats on your launch. Yes, I've been using my own product (an app switcher), and it's been very useful for figuring out the friction points and common nuisances to address. I'd now like to get feedback from users to further improve it and make it even more natural
@formalabsĀ Tanks! I also saw your launch, congrats !
Has it brought in some users? And have you been getting more user feedback since the launch day?
yeah, kind of. every few days. But mine is a dream app, hence sometimes I grapple with remembering what I dreamed... oops. that being said, today I entered 2. Silly Humans.
@jai_koutraeĀ Wow, cool =)
Is it available on play market?
@adanaĀ Thanks Adana. iPhone only for now. Androidās on my mind but I havenāt started it, so I wonāt promise a date. Are you on Android?
@jai_koutraeĀ Yes, I'm on Android..
Absolutely, I built a quiet counter for me and my family. I cook just about every meal with it, save all my recipes to it, plan my trips to the market with it. It's been really great to see other family and friends use it and get the same value out of it.
@patrick_buckley3Ā Wow! I checked out your landing and really liked it, especially the seasonal calendar and recommendations.
I'll give it a try!
Yesāxtty is the terminal I use while building xtty. That creates a useful loop: the small bits of friction I feel during local work, SSH, file transfer, or coding-agent sessions become the next things I test and simplify.
Dogfooding doesnāt replace user feedback, but it keeps me honest: if a workflow interrupts me every day, itās probably worth fixing.
@jian_xu9Ā Agree that using your own product doesn't replace user feedback. Sometimes you're blind to certain things yourself =)
Yes, thatās the whole idea of building the product: use it yourself, then share it with the world. 40% of our lead generation comes from ChatGPT, and thatās what we do.
@cjgiridharĀ What problem does your product solve?
Every day. Runner's own marketing is run by a Runner team, with the same agents and approvals, chasing our own number: 10 paying customers by Dec 31.
It's the fastest bug report I've got. Today our team page felt slow to me, so we cut its database calls from 320 to about 170 the same day.
@robksawyerĀ So, do I understand correctly, you're running your own marketing using Runner itself?
what's the approach ? i'd like to learn more =)
@adanaĀ Yes, Runner's marketing runs inside Runner.
The approach:
Runner reads what it already knows about the product (the repo, POS products, who it's for, which channels are connected) and proposes a growth team: one goal, and a line per channel. Ours is "10 paying customers by Dec 31" with lines on LinkedIn, X, YouTube and TikTok.
The agents draft every post, ad and email. Nothing goes out until I approve it (or set to automatic), one tap with a passkey.
Two places the agents never write: Product Hunt and Hacker News. They hand me facts, I write the comment. This one included.
The team is leaning on content and founder conversations like this one. If you want to see it, app.runtheworld.ai/start.
@robksawyerĀ Thanks for sharing!
I'll check it out.
Wish you all the success =)
@adanaĀ Thanks and same to you and your team!
@adana yes, every day! I built mine because I couldn't put my phone down, so I'm the first user by default. It still catches me most evenings lol. When something feels too strict or too easy to ignore, I'm usually the first one to notice.
@moorthymĀ Interestingā¦ And what's your approach to reducing your screen time?
I use the archive regularly when tracing a theme across talks; it quickly shows where navigation and context matter. I also try not to treat my own habits as universalāsomeone arriving with one specific question may need a very different path.
@osholiveĀ I totally agree with your point about not trying to create universal solutions for everyone.
Are you going to launch it here on PH?