Eat your own dog shit

blog.fray.it

7 points·basprass··8 comments

I'm not quite sure what the phrase means to the author after reading the post. Is he/she referring to the standard (and less vulgar) software engineering concept of eating one's own dog food? If so, it seemed that the article went off in a bunch of other directions after that, amounting basically to the main idea that startups should work hard. If not, a definition of the term would be helpful to know the lesson to be learned from the article.

The lesson is "mix a well-known concept with some profanity to produce a vaguely intriguing title that will get your shitty startup attention on Hacker News".

Can't upvote this enough ... Blogs and "news" sites are publishing headlines that are more and more abrasive and controversial in hopes of getting clicks.

It's apparently working.

Don't you mean dog food?

http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dogfood.html

But that wouldn't make sense either, the post isn't about them using their own service in any manner.

" The team realized that users had insufficient thoughts around what Fray was about in general."

Dear author, The reader of this blogpost also doesn't have a clue what Frey is about...

I have no idea what Fray is and i looked and tried clicking on a few things to take me to their app or product page and couldn't find it...

Well apparently:

> Fray is a mobile-based buyer-powered commerce marketplace that connects offline businesses and individuals to global consumers. We revolutionize the supply chain into a peer-to-peer exchange and empower users to create micro enterprises.

But I'm still no more enlightened. And yeah, www & fray.it both redirect to blog.fray.it. So no idea where their actual app/product page is...

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