Extreme dogfooding

Extreme dogfooding is the act of not only using your own software but also:

• Only building software when a pressing, visceral need for it arises.
• Dogfooding the software in a diversity of real life situations and adapting it in response before sharing it.
• Never adding a feature because it would be cool - only because there is a clear and pressing need.

The idea behind extreme dogfooding is to boil software down to its barest essence.