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Re: Two big announcements

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Post by guynamedloren »

philfreo wrote: post #9

Big news! We've been big fans of 37signals for a decade or so and in many ways they have inspired us in building Close.io. I love that they are able to make the hard decision to focus on one thing. We want to take great care of any Highrise customers looking for a new home: http://close.io/highrise Check out http://close.io/ - mention that you were a Highrise customer and I can make sure you'll get a special discount…

Your comment implies Highrise is going to disappear - however, that's not the case. They're either going to sell Highrise (to a buyer who is committed to keeping it running + growing) or continue to run it themselves in maintenance mode.

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Post by karolisd »

So, what about Basecamp Classic? That's something they won't sell to another company, but is it something they'll continue supporting? I'd imagine it's simple to maintain.

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Post by guynamedloren »

From the FAQ:

> Based on current revenues, current growth rates, and a conservative multiple, Campfire will sell in the single digit millions, and Highrise will sell in the tens of millions.

Amazing that those products are doing so well and they've largely been on autopilot for the past few years. This info + the switch to focus on Basecamp can only mean that they're making an absolute killing with Basecamp.

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Post by johns »

thiele wrote: post #23
athaeryn wrote: post #20

So uh... is this going to be a problem? https://twitter.com/basecamp

If the account hasn't been active for 6 months (which appears to be the case) Basecamp may be able to get the handle. Policy: https://support.twitter.com/articles/15362-inactive-account-...

The last I heard, it needed to be entirely dormant (meaning not a single log in) for 30 months in order to be eligible to transfer. Though they might have a trademark claim that would likely help.

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Post by math0ne »

This is really cool. I love basecamp and have been a daily user since close to day one. However their maintaining legacy basecamp in parallel to new basecamp seems to make even less sense to me now then it did then.

It seems to me if the transition process between the two could have been smoother they could have got all their users on board for the upgrade.

I'm really hoping that as part of their renewed efforts with basecamp they might re-address people that are stuck in basecamp classic due to the much less than smooth upragde process.

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