One of the first decisions ever made about Avallach’s web service offering had nothing to do with features, pricing or some technical thing. Right from day one, the service was designed and intended to be the platform on which the serivce site itself ran.
The cliché is that “we eat our own dog food” – however, cliché or no, it describes the situation exactly. You see, by running the main WAHMBoozle! site on the WAHMBoozle! platform a few critical and interesting side-effects occur:
- Constant monitoring of the service availability
- Real-world experience as an end-user
- Tips and Tricks offered in the community are based on hands-on usage
- Service and software development benefit from direct feedback
Above all else, being a user of the system has a profound effect on excitement and passion levels that give the business a massive boost that I can’t imagine would be possible from too many other sources.
Do you eat your own dog food? If you don’t, perhaps you should!
