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Re: Two big announcements

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Post by neilkelty » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 1:23 PM UTC

calibraxis wrote: post #90

dror wrote: post #65

We use basecamp and campfire at work. Basecamp is mediocre, not horrible and not great. Campfire sucks compared to similar tools that I've used in the past. Seems to me that they've been successful mostly because of their involvement in the Ruby and startup world, rather than making great products. Nothing wrong with that, but it's good to be clear about the distinction between a company that makes great product and…

What are great alternatives to Basecamp? (I don't use Basecamp but am interested in the space.)

After being a Basecamp customer basically since Launch, I've begun trying Asana - http://www.asana.com

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by tripzilch » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 12:39 AM UTC

noelwelsh wrote: post #78

Interesting. I always saw 37Signals as a good example of a diversified portfolio. I notice they're going to keep the side projects (books, job board) which probably have the highest margins and require very little ongoing investment of mental energy. I don't see where the growth in Basecamp is going to come from, but then I don't use the product (tried it once, too limited.) Also, did Jason Fried step out of a time m…

> Also, did Jason Fried step out of a time machine with his IBM Selectric typewriter to compose this? 37Signals have always been on the hipster end of things but the design of this letter is ridiculously so.

I gotta admit, while it's the content of the article that has 99% of my interest (going to miss the "37signals" name, but it sounds like they know exactly what they're doing, so good for them!), I did also pause and wonder about the Courier font as well as the "scribbly" version of the Basecamp logo.

But then, that's me, and sometimes a font is just a font? :)

Re: Two big announcements

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Post by tripzilch » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 12:52 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #71

eps wrote: post #69

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What struggle? They were formed to design websites and that's what they did for 5 years. Though I guess you can view web design as a "struggle" with all that IE6 testing and what not, but some people really enjoy it :)

but some people really enjoy it Who. 0_o

I used to love battling with IE6 to get a webdesign looking great, cross-browser compatible and degrading gracefully. Ok it was maybe more like love+hate, it was a challenge, a puzzle and particularly trying to solve it in the least (subjectively) "hackish" way possible.

But then, I also used to write 4096 byte demos in x86 asm. And a bunch of other crazy things that don't even occur to me now, some things with JS ...