dogfooding
✓Help users implement effective dogfooding practices. Use when someone is trying to get their team to use their own product, designing internal usage programs, or building user empathy through personal product use.
Installation
SKILL.md
Help the user implement effective dogfooding practices using frameworks from 2 product leaders who have built cultures of intense internal product usage.
Maya Prohovnik: "I am constantly yelling at my product team who do not have podcasts and being like, I really don't think that you can build the right things. If they talk to users all the time, they see the data, but all of them, once they finally start doing their podcast, they're like, I get it." Force the entire team to become creators/users to deeply understand user pain points.
Use the tool intensely every day Michael Truell: "From the very start, our product development process was really about dogfooding, and using the tool intensely every day. And we never wanted to ship anything that wasn't useful to us." 'Intense' daily use provides the realism needed to build useful features, especially for AI products.
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- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill dogfooding- Source
- refoundai/lenny-skills
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is dogfooding?
Help users implement effective dogfooding practices. Use when someone is trying to get their team to use their own product, designing internal usage programs, or building user empathy through personal product use. Source: refoundai/lenny-skills.
How do I install dogfooding?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill dogfooding Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills
Details
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01