why eating your own dogfood is a good thing
Very early on in our development of Filtrbox we got the core system working and sending out daily email updates of new articles to a small group of test users. It’s been good to watch even the prototype service improve as we improve FiltrRank and our content reach. From early on, we started “eating our own dogfood” by relying on the system to keep us informed of new content related to Filtrbox and our market. Yesterday Filtrbox picked up an article talking about Google Alerts via RSS, which turned out to be great validation of the demand for some of the things we are working on. It was one of those cool moments that reinforces why we are on this mission! Also mentioned was that G-A is picking up video content. It’s good to see that rich media is starting to work its way into the world of content monitoring, as this is going to become a big part of content ecosystem pretty soon.