Dogfooding
If your team ships features that miss the mark because no one actually lives in the product daily, this walks you through building a real dogfooding culture. It pushes you to assess how much your team genuinely uses what they build, then helps design systems that make intense internal usage required, not optional. The framing comes from product leaders like Maya Prohovnik who literally yells at team members without podcasts to start one so they feel creator pain. The key insight is that superficial testing in demo mode doesn't cut it. You need people using the product for real work every day, feeling the friction immediately, and having a process to act on what breaks. Works best when paired with actual commitment to fix what you find.
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$ npx -y skills add refoundai/lenny-skills --skill dogfooding --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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If your team ships features that miss the mark because no one actually lives in the product daily, this walks you through building a real dogfooding culture. It pushes you to assess how much your team genuinely uses what they build, then helps design systems that make intense internal usage required, not optional. The framing comes from product leaders like Maya Prohovnik who literally yells at team members without podcasts to start one so they feel creator pain. The key insight is that superficial testing in demo mode doesn't cut it. You need people using the product for real work every day, feeling the friction immediately, and having a process to act on what breaks. Works best when paired with actual commitment to fix what you find.
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