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by biot 4605 days ago
The nature of your product means that you are able to use the product as part of creating the product. Much like how a trucking company uses its own trucks to deliver the parts needed to build/repair those same trucks. Or how gcc is used to build gcc. What you call "extreme dogfooding" is more like half plain old dogfooding and half bootstrapping.
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It's got nothing to do with bootstrapping.
It's quite similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

The process of getting a compiler to compile itself is not unlike your process of using Rainforest as part of the build process for Rainforest.