English Dictionary

eat one's own dog food

動詞

俗語 慣用表現

(computing, slang) To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.

日本語の意味

（コンピューティング、俗語）自社が販売している製品やサービスを自ら利用し、その制限や欠陥を理解し、改善点を見出す行為

To ensure quality, the company encouraged all teams to eat one's own dog food and run the beta internally for two weeks.

品質を確保するため、その会社は全チームに自社製品を社内で使用し、ベータ版を2週間社内で運用することを奨励した。

意味（1）

(computing, slang) To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.

AOL was signing up members at a furious rate, in part because it provided a better user experience than Juno, and we didn't understand that, because we didn't eat our own dog food.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To use or consume the economic goods or services that one is producing; to be part of a closed household economy.

eats one's own dog food （ present singular third-person ）

eating one's own dog food （ participle present ）

ate one's own dog food （ past ）

eaten one's own dog food （ participle past ）