General
eat your own dog food
What does eat your own dog food mean?
To use your company's own product in daily work to catch problems and prove it works. Often shortened to 'dogfooding'.
"We dogfood the app internally before every release."
Origin
1980s tech industry idiom, linked to a Microsoft manager's email.
Frequently asked questions
What does eat your own dog food mean?
It means to use your company's own product internally in daily work to catch problems and prove it works.
What is dogfooding?
Dogfooding is the shortened form of the phrase: routinely using your own product before shipping it to customers.
Where does the phrase come from?
It's a 1980s tech industry idiom, often linked to a Microsoft manager's internal email.
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