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90% of the 'issues' raised in the comment thread including that by alexcroox can be answered by reading the post.
Here, in case you missed it http://37signals.com/
The other 10% are outright misleading.
BTW, Alex Croox, once you start a business, you must run it forever right? Well, I have decided to build my flow around all your project here alexcrooks.me
Don't shut any down hommie.
This smells like they are going to try to pull a Atlassian. And they will also go take VC money ... Going to be fun to watch :)
what's pulling an Atlassian?
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Atlassian already owns HipChat. Bet GitHub steps up, as they use it already.
Github would be better to write a campfire clone in a day or so, and roll it out. I'm betting github has a larger userbase than campfire, so what would be the point in paying a few million for campfire?
I thought we were already past the "why buy it if you can copy it".
Software is a hard business. Novel becomes trivial fast. Competitive edge can become a standard "best" practice fast and a product or business which was revolutionary and profitable one decade can seem naive the next. Basecamp needs to move to keep up. They have their commitment to "not too much software" and simplicity which is great but has some tradeoffs. In any case, collaboration between people working on things…
I don't see any reason why some of 37's other products can't get rolled up into Basecamp as features/modules though.
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Github would be better to write a campfire clone in a day or so, and roll it out. I'm betting github has a larger userbase than campfire, so what would be the point in paying a few million for campfire?
The talent and know-how? I thought we were already past the "why buy it if you can copy it".
Is writing a webchat client some black dark art?
There's nothing much you need to know to write a webchat client. Campfire isn't high volume, so it doesn't need to be too efficient either. Last time I checked campfire processes a few messages a second. Heck you could rewrite it in PHP/MySQL if you were that way inclined.
Campfire didn't succeed because it was a good product. It succeeded because they marketed it to their "following" who bought into it.
is it just me or they are saying 'in other words' that only basecamp succeeded and most other products failed ? otherwise why not just bring in more devs instead of focusing on one product.
is it just me or they are saying 'in other words' that only basecamp succeeded and most other products failed ? otherwise why not just bring in more devs instead of focusing on one product.
Honestly it can be liberating to strip out less than ideal elements from your business to focus on what you love and what is working the best.
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Even if you have the resources to support something, should you if its not your core focus? Personal I feel that Google is still run as a startup, which is fantastic however people expect Google to be a corporate company.
How is google anything like a startup?
Maybe I meant to say that departments WITHIN Google are run like startups not Google itself.