A similar one IMO would be Buffer. Remote, extremely transparent, treating their employees and customer well, etc. One big difference is that Buffer, while initially bootstrapped, did eventually raise VC money, while Basecamp famously never has. You can read more about Buffer at their company blog: https://open.buffer.com/
What does this company actually do? I read through their site and it's just really vague, to me at least.
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Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#12A similar one IMO would be Buffer. Remote, extremely transparent, treating their employees and customer well, etc. One big difference is that Buffer, while initially bootstrapped, did eventually raise VC money, while Basecamp famously never has. You can read more about Buffer at their company blog: https://open.buffer.com/
What does this company actually do? I read through their site and it's just really vague, to me at least.
Originally, it was built just to schedule tweets in the future.
Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#13Plenty of companies if you don't limit yourself to "startups". For instance, my company (I'm the Director of Technology) is like that (just listened to DHH's interview on Ruby Rogues this morning, so many of these are fresh in my mind): 1) Pay talent fairly 2) Customers are more important than technology 3) Small team 4) Reasonable hours 5) Tight focus 6) Trust your talent 7) Remote friendly (people think this first…
Discourse is not hiring right now but we will definitely be hiring a lot more in the year to come. We’re all of the things above, plus a 100% Rails based, open source product.
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#14There must be downsides. Right? Are there any? For real people at Basecamp?
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#15* Heroku 7.00 per month
* Rails app
* Android and iOS app developed with Turbolinks plugin.
Now we are in 3 other cities and we made a cms and backoffice to handle the orders workflow and we developed a printer system with raspberry-pi. Currently we are the biggest company of delivery food in the south of Italy. We have no investors
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#16I like this question. Well I can talk about my company. I'm the CTO of http://prestofood.it a small delivery food company based on Sicily. We started with fews resources and we made around 3.000 orders per month. We started from one city with a small team 2 developers. Here our initial configuration: * Heroku 7.00 per month * Rails app * Android and iOS app developed with Turbolinks plugin. Now we are in 3 other citi…
Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#17I like this question. Well I can talk about my company. I'm the CTO of http://prestofood.it a small delivery food company based on Sicily. We started with fews resources and we made around 3.000 orders per month. We started from one city with a small team 2 developers. Here our initial configuration: * Heroku 7.00 per month * Rails app * Android and iOS app developed with Turbolinks plugin. Now we are in 3 other citi…
Your reply reads like an advertisement for your company, and doesn't mention anything about your corporate culture, which is what OP was asking about.
Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#18Hijacking the thread a bit, but are there any published negative experiences about working at Basecamp? Everything I know about Basecamp's culture comes from their owners - obviously it is in their interest to be very enthousiastic about it, especially since their product supports a company with their culture particularly well. There must be downsides. Right? Are there any? For real people at Basecamp?
Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#19Hijacking the thread a bit, but are there any published negative experiences about working at Basecamp? Everything I know about Basecamp's culture comes from their owners - obviously it is in their interest to be very enthousiastic about it, especially since their product supports a company with their culture particularly well. There must be downsides. Right? Are there any? For real people at Basecamp?
Re: Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
#20We are a fully distributed team, and we build a lovable product. We published a book called Lovability[1] to help explain how we do it. We support each other, congratulate each other, and push hard to make it happen; these things require trust and talent in every part of the organization. I am a better person (and engineer) for having worked at this company.
Here are the pillars of our culture[2]:
* Have purpose: You know what you are working towards. You are aware of what success is and guided back to the purpose if you wind up in the weeds.
* Value work: You have the opportunity to achieve and to do something important. Doing great work is valued and recognized.
* Teach hard: Direct feedback is given on a regular basis to help you improve your skills every day.
* Grows talent: There is a framework for success, people are trained on it and given room to grow. There is trust that people will step into challenging roles as the organization needs them to. Promotions occur from within.
* Honor reality: Neither time nor money is invested in manipulation. Work is guided by values and purpose.
* Work it: Work sometimes requires great effort. However, it does not burn you out but instead keeps you going.
Some of my favorite blog posts: * https://blog.aha.io/your-success-think-like-a-grandpa/
* all of these :) - https://blog.aha.io/author/why-i-joined-aha/
* https://blog.aha.io/your-remote-co-workers-feel-left-out/
* https://blog.aha.io/hey-boss-stop-telling-me-to-bring-you-solutions/
[0] https://aha.io[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lovability-Build-Business-People-Happ...