- Dogfooding is using an app or feature shortly before it's publically released.
- The term
dogfood
comes from the expression "eating your own dogfood".
- Fishfooding is using an app or feature really early in its development before it's even really finished.
- The term "fishfood" actually comes from the Google+ team inside of Google.
- Google+ was internally codenamed Emerald Sea.
- During its early development, it wasn't finished enough to be considered dogfoodable.
- So they called it "fishfood" because Emerald Sea.