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Re: Two big announcements

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Post by subbu »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #37
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.

I doubt unless they want to kill Hipchat and use Campfire.

We will not sell either of these products to a company that is planning to shut the products down.

IMO Hipchat is a better chat tool than Campfire.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by codezero »

karolisd wrote: post #24

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.

FAQ at the bottom of the article says:

Q: What about Basecamp Classic?

We are fully committed to running Basecamp Classic forever. As long as we're around, Basecamp Classic will be around. A large chunk of our customer base loves Classic and we'll make sure they'll always have their Classic. The same rigorous uptime standards of Basecamp also apply to Basecamp Classic.

Background: Basecamp Classic was the original version of Basecamp we launched in 2004. Then in 2012 we released the all new version of Basecamp. Customers had the choice to stay on the old version, transition to the new version, or use both.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by quickpost »

aresant wrote: post #14

1999 founded. 2004 first product launched. 5 years after the company and team came together. 5 years of time to hone the skills and struggle. Oh yah, and another 10 years to grow to 43 people. Simple reminder of the commitment to patience it can actually take to build a remarkable business.

Gives all us bootstrappers some hope after all! It certainly gave me some.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by lucaspiller »

subbu wrote: post #41
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I doubt unless they want to kill Hipchat and use Campfire. We will not sell either of these products to a company that is planning to shut the products down. IMO Hipchat is a better chat tool than Campfire.

Why kill either? They are already a big player in the market, if they have Campfire too their will dominate it.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by Tehnix »

karolisd wrote: post #24

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.

In the Q&A section (I didn't see it at first myself)

>We are fully committed to running Basecamp Classic forever. As long as we're around, Basecamp Classic will be around.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by Xorlev »

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…

Hey guys,

Your navbar links don't seem work on your Highrise page.

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by [deleted] »

philfreo wrote: post #13
tyrelb wrote: post #3

And I was just about to integrate Highrise into my app...moving on! Any suggestions on a Highrise competitor that is stable, etc.?

Give us a shot... http://close.io/ We've also got an easy migration tool for any existing Highrise users: http://close.io/highrise and a solid REST API http://developer.close.io/

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Re: Two big announcements

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Post by andyfowler »

tyrelb wrote: post #3

And I was just about to integrate Highrise into my app...moving on! Any suggestions on a Highrise competitor that is stable, etc.?

Check us out at http://nutshell.com — we've got a one-click import tool from Highrise. We're an established, profitable company focused on CRM with gorgeous UI.

We're polishing up our new JSON-API-based http://jsonapi.org/ REST API, and we've got a well-supported JSON-RPC API published at http://nutshell.com/api

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