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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Yes I do. Getting to use and test my product frequently has been such a rewarding component to building. I see things that look off, and get right to fixing. I see things that I think look good, and try to replicate the concept. Being your own critique is important, as it helps you take critique from others. Learning to adapt and update day by day, even when you look at your own product all the time is a great thing to do!
@anthony_fontanaĀ Totally agree with you!
And what is your product about?
@adanaĀ Net Worth Nexus. It connects your brokerages, banks and crypto, plus what you own like a home or car, so your whole net worth is one number you can watch move. It's live on iPhone and the web, and we're launching here on Product Hunt soon!
@anthony_fontanaĀ wow, cool !
Just ping on the launch day, we're all here for support =)
Yep, I built Lampa Camera mostly for myself because I didnāt like how the AI processing in Appleās camera often kills the vibe of a photo. Using it myself really keeps me motivated to improve it, and running out of ideas has never been a problem haha.
But something I realized later is that the features I personally want arenāt always the ones that sell or bring in revenue. So building for yourself is a great starting point, but I guess you need a balance.
@wrongexposureĀ Wow, interesting!
And are you planning to launch it here on Product Hunt?
@adanaĀ Yess, working on it right now :)
@wrongexposureĀ so , looking forward. Once the draft page is ready feel free to share it , I'll give some feedback relied on my own launch experience =)
Every day. I built Fluentime for my own client work first. The new planner exists because I kept tracking time in one app and moving tasks around in Trello, and hours got lost in the gap between the two. The downside of using your own product daily: I'm a terrible tester for onboarding, because I know every shortcut.
@chris_fluentimeĀ Agreed on onboarding testing =D
Could you tell me a bit more about time tracking?
How did you do it before, and how do you do it now?
@adanaĀ Before: a timer app for the hours, Trello for the tasks, and an evening before every invoice going back through entries and rewriting them so the client understood what they were paying for. Tracking was never the hard part. Keeping it accurate and explainable was. Now the board, the calendar and the time entries live in one app, and before invoicing the AI turns my rough notes into proper descriptions. Closer to your "mirror within a mirror" than I expected š
@chris_fluentimeĀ Great ! Checked your website - cool one.
I'll check it in action =)
Are you going to launch it here on PH?
@adana absolutely, like other comments say it depends on the product, but for us that are building a AI Verification layer and use AI everyday is a must. We find a lot of the improvements that way, so don't have to wait for clients to provide that feedback and keep a healthy roadmap. In the end many clients expect us to be consultants, if we don't use our product it really hard to make believable use cases and built trust
@laura_sanchezgĀ The part of being a consultant for the clients is very interesting. Are you going to launch your product here on PH?
@adanaĀ yes we will
@laura_sanchezgĀ so, looking forward. good luck =)
Define 'use' lol. my product, kept, is there almost not to be used everyday - but when you need it. So, no not everyday but enough that I built it to solve a problem for my wife and I and others have found it incredibly useful too. Sometimes the best products are those that are just 'there' when you need it!
how about you?
@mrjoecĀ Interesting, what does your product do?
I built my product out of a need and Iāve been using it every day since. Building something that helps both me and others has been a great experience.
Every day. I build Cuewire by running Cuewire (cuewire.dev): Claude Code and Codex side by side on one canvas, can add any coding agent in the team, handing tasks between them through a wire btw agents, approving from the same list my users will see. Every rough edge I ship, I trip over first as a user ā it's the fastest QA loop I have, and the most humbling one.
yeah, i market my own apps with short videos so i'm my own first user. the bugs i hit myself get fixed way faster than anything a user reports lol
Yes, and it changes what I fix. I make EveryApp, a big set of small everyday apps (bill splitting, habits, PDFs, timers), so I end up using it for small jobs most days. Building, I test the happy path. Living with it, I hit the things a test session never reaches: what happens on day 40 of a streak, after a missed day, after a week away, when I come back to a half-finished list on my phone.
The rule I settled on: if something annoys me twice in one week, it goes above anything new on the list. Users rarely report small irritations, they just drift away, so dogfooding is the only way I find most of them.
Disclosure: I'm the maker. The one I open most is the habit tracker: https://everyapp.pro/habit-tracker
oh yeah, every single day! Tbh I became addictive to it š
I run complete SEO trhough that: send emails for link placement, reply on them, find keywords and generate article, check AI visibility, update article.
Sometimes I even reply on emails through voice chat while driving