[renewiltord]

This is cargo cult business from people who learn all they do about tech from startup bloggers.

[coldtea]

You might have learned it from startup bloggers.

Dogfooding has a big history in Sillicon Valley and kinds of software development culture way before blogging was a thing. Before the web was a thing too. It was a thing people explicitly referred to before it even had that name.

So there's that.