Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software? It seems like every "great" piece of software, e.g. the operating systems of Apple and Microsoft, the search engine of Google, AWS inside Amazon, Facebook etc was dogfooded. What's the biggest exception to this rule? |
Like I doubt that people writing autoCAD are ones who needed it in the first place.
Maybe I am wrong.
Not entirely software .. but an example of a system not used in house .. or at all ... yet.
Greatest? Hmm. Hard to say.
It would be an amazing system. Cut the head off and up to 20% of the world is dead or injured, followed by the socioeconomic collapse due to destruction at this scale.
And wasn’t windows originally created as a product for sale? I don’t remember microsoft starting as hardware company. Maybe that is why windows sucks :)