dogfooding
dawg-foo-dingnoun, verb
Silicon ValleyNorCalSafe anywhereDifficulty 2 of 3: Regional
Definition
Using your own product internally before or alongside shipping it to customers.
In simple English: Using the product your own company makes.
Examples
We’re dogfooding the new dashboard before launch.
The whole team dogfoods the app daily.
Usage notes
From "eating your own dog food", popularized at Microsoft in the late 1980s and now standard across the industry.
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- Track
- Silicon Valley
- Region
- NorCal
- Part of speech
- noun, verb