Eat Your Own Product
One of the most important yet often overlooked principles in building a great product is using it internally, and despite knowing this for years, the team behind Whisperit has not been fully applying it. The common excuses — not being lawyers, needing different features, having different use cases — are ultimately not valid, and the real reason comes down to small frictions in the product, like an extra click here or there, that make it tempting to reach for another tool instead. This is a significant mistake, because once a product has reached a decent level with its first hundreds of users, the difference between good and great lies in the details. The commitment going forward is for the entire team to use Whisperit for AI tasks, documents, and meeting recordings, as this is the only way to identify and fix all the small issues that stand between the product and becoming the leading tool in Legal Tech.
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Dogfooding to improve our product 4.3.26
Since many years, I know that the key, or one of the key to build an amazing product is to use it ourself. It seems very obvious, yet so many company don't apply this rule. And to be honest, we don't apply it fully. Why are we not dogfooding Whisperit? Why are we not using Whisperit for everything? There are some fake reason: "we are not lawyers". Or "we need other features", "we don't have the same use cases. But let's be honest: this is all bullshit. So let's face the reason & ask the question again? The answer is simple: for all the small frictions. For this extra click that I don't have to do if I use another
software. So by being lazy, I prefer to use that other tool, that is not my own, instead of taking the time to fix my little extra click in my app. And that, my friend, is a big mistake. Because once you have a good-ish software with first hundreds of users, it's in the details that we make the difference. So I here commit, that we are gonna change this in this quarter, & use all the team, Whisperit for our AI/documents/ meeting recordings. Because it's the only way we will fix all these little extra clicks & issues in our product and make it the #1 in Legal Tech! Cheers. Romain