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title: _dogfooding_
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  **_Dogfooding_** — using your own product daily as a real user, so the maker
  experiences exactly what the product feels like. In the channel's material it
  is one of the tactics a solo engineer used to build an AI dictation app,
  **Monologue**, into a product with **$1,000+ MRR and 1,000+ daily active users
  before launch** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@0].
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# \_dogfooding\_

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**_Dogfooding_** — using your own product daily as a real user, so the maker experiences exactly what the product feels like. In the channel's material it is one of the tactics a solo engineer used to build an AI dictation app, **Monologue**, into a product with **$1,000+ MRR and 1,000+ daily active users before launch** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@0].

In this channel's material, **_dogfooding_** appears as one of the tactics behind a solo engineer growing **Monologue**, an AI voice dictation app, to **$1,000+ MRR and 1,000+ daily active users before it even launched** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@0].The video frames dogfooding as part of a bundle of practical moves you can explore alongside: - **shipping weekly** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@142]- **dogfooding** — using his own product [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@2330]- getting **harsh feedback** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@2341]- leaning on **AI coding tools** [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@119]- Dogfooding is presented as a real tactic that helped Monologue reach **1,000+ daily active users** pre-launch [^01a0f15a-da29-744f-a84c-a3acc99355ea@21].