Employees who use their own product can spot improvements
In a piece published in the 00f.net feed on September 24, 2026, the author argues that employees who choose to use their company's product for personal projects can notice problems, suggest improvements, and explain its value from experience.
The author recalls that employees at the most innovative and productive companies they worked for used the companies' products by choice. As an example, they cite Skyblog, Skyrock's French blogging platform, which the author and colleagues used day and night. To the author, this connection said more about a company than its budget: using a product for personal projects exposes limitations and bugs differently from merely testing features or preparing demonstrations.
According to the piece, this experience can prompt improvement ideas before a customer asks and help employees explain the product's value to others. The author stresses that employee-reported problems should receive the same attention as customer reports. This is a reflection based on the author's experience, not a study with quantitative results; the supplied excerpt ends at the start of a sentence about customer requests. Consult the original text in the 00f.net feed and compare the complete passage and date: the reference indicates September 25, 2026, while the feed record gives September 24.