Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?

3 nathancspencer 4 7/7/2025, 9:37:58 AM

It seems like every "great" piece of software, e.g. the operating systems of Apple and Microsoft, the search engine of Google, AWS inside Amazon, Facebook etc was dogfooded.

What's the biggest exception to this rule?

Comments (4)

matt_s · 31m ago

Do companies like Oracle and SAP run their own business on their ERP platforms? That might be the biggest one.

d--b · 52m ago

Well software for non-software people...

Like I doubt that people writing autoCAD are ones who needed it in the first place.

Maybe I am wrong.

defrost · 6h ago

The US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (DDSACCS), which sends emergency action messages to nuclear forces.

Not entirely software .. but an example of a system not used in house .. or at all ... yet.

Greatest? Hmm. Hard to say.

abc000 · 6h ago

None.

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Ask HN: What's the greatest piece of non-dogfooded software?

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