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Re: Two big announcements

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Post by philfreo »

guynamedloren wrote: post #21
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.

I don't think it's going to disappear, but I do think many customers will consider alternatives when it's clear the original designers are no longer onboard with the product anymore.

Highrise was an amazing product years ago, but let's face it, Highrise has almost been abandoned for the past couple years at least. Could a new owner take over and revamp it to be amazing? It's possible, but not the common outcome of acquisitions.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by lachlanj »

Based on the lack of attention the new Basecamp has gotten after launch, this is incentive enough for me to more to a new project management tool. The only real incentive to say was the very minor integration with Highrise

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by midas007 »

There are so many project management apps out there, the competition is fierce. For a proj mgmt app to succeed, there either has to be USP and massive value. For example, Asana is especially good. I haven't tried Basecamp recently but it wasn't as lightweight, low-cost and nice as Asana.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by jaxomlotus »

1) I never understood the odd trend of having a jpeg of a handwritten signature included in a digital email. A signature is supposed to designate authenticity, but a letter on a authenticated website is inherently authentic.

So it's forced, and decorative. And makes me think the author is trying too hard.

2) I respect Jason very much and think this decision is the right one from a consumer perspective. If they are only going to make one product going forward (which is the right decision), there's no need for a separate company brand. Good call by them - and no doubt a difficult one to make.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

luigi wrote: post #5

I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.

My bet was going to be Atlassian. They have the clearest competitor to Campfire (Hipchat), a history of pulling off acquisitions (Bitbucket) and from 37Signals perspective could probably make a better case that they could take care / migrate their customers.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by unfunco »

robotcookies wrote: post #17
luigi wrote: post #5

I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.

But Github is already doing what 37signals is aiming for and that is being a company focused on a single product. I'd think they want to maintain that.

Whilst GitHub itself is definitely the focus at GitHub, Inc. They also have other products, they have a job board too, and Speaker Deck, and Gauges.
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