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  Remote Working: The home office desks of Basecamp

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  People are always curious about work-from-home (WFH), remote working setups. So, I posted a Basecamp message asking our employees to share a photo of their home office, desk, table, whatever. Here’s what came in. First, the ask: And the answers, in the order they came in: Andy Didorosi, Marketing Justin White, Programmer Jonas Downey, Designer Troy Toman, DevOps Blake Stoddard, DevOps Dan Kim, Pro

  • テクノロジー
  • 2020/03/21 13:37

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  How we acquired HEY.com

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  Back on June 9, 2018, I cold emailed [email protected]: Hey there– Curious… Would you entertain an offer to sell hey.com? I'd like to use it for something I'm working on, and willing to make you a strong offer. Let me know. Thanks! -Jason And that’s where it all began. For the 25+ years I’ve been emailing, I’d say close to 95% of those email began with some variation of “Hey [Name]”. So when it ca

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  • 2020/03/08 16:13

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  Back to windows after twenty years

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  Apple’s stubborn four-year refusal to fix the terminally broken butterfly keyboard design led me to a crazy experiment last week: Giving Windows a try for the first time in twenty years. Not really because I suddenly had some great curiosity about Windows, but because Apple’s infuriating failure to sell a reliable laptop reluctantly put me back in the market. So when I saw the praise heaped upon t

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  • 2019/11/05 08:43

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  Marking the end of pixel trackers in Basecamp emails

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  When Mike Davidson blew the lid off the invasive and appealing read receipts in a new personal email client called Superhuman, it brought about a full discussion of email tracking in general. At Basecamp, this lead to the conclusion that we wanted nothing to do with such tracking. It wasn’t like we were doing anything as nefarious as those nasty Superhuman trackers, but still, we used the default

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  • 2019/08/29 13:36

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  Open source beyond the market

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  Keynote on the topic of open source, markets, debts, purpose, and no less than the meaning of life. Delivered at RailsConf 2019. Also available as a long read below. In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, anthropologist David Graeber explores the fascinating history of debt and economies. It starts out by debunking the common myth that prior to coinage, everyone were trapped in this inefficient mode of b

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  • 2019/05/22 07:51

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  Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture

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  We’ve written quite a bit in the past about our approach to building hybrid mobile apps. Basecamp 3 represents the latest generation of this architecture, taking everything we’ve learned from previous versions. The first app for Basecamp 2 app was iPhone only, written in RubyMotion as a thin wrapper around UIWebView. Next, we did a new universal app for Basecamp 2, written in Xcode + Objective-C,

  • テクノロジー
  • 2019/02/07 16:47

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  Signal v Noise exits Medium

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  Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely from the boost in reach and readership those early days brought. But alas it was not to last. When we moved over, Medium was all about attracting big blogs and other publishers. This was going to be a new space for a new time where publishers

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  • 2019/01/16 07:31
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  Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years

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  When I started programming Ruby, it was on an Apple iBook G4/800. That beautiful 12” powerhouse of a 800 MHz PowerPC with a rocking 256MB of RAM. A lovely computer that was not only fast enough to run Ruby, but a pleasure to develop the first version of both Rails and Basecamp on. When Basecamp launched in February of 2004, we ran on a single shared Linux server at Tilted. I don’t fully remember t

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  • 2016/05/17 09:10

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  Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

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  Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get those extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back, and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs. Now we all borrow occasionally, and that’s okay if you fully understand the consequences and don’t make it a habit.

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  • 2016/03/26 19:10
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  No Reply Addresses

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  Go check your inbox right now. I guarantee you’ve got a few emails from a “[email protected]”. A quick search through mine yielded 28 different no-reply emails from 28 different companies. It’s not limited to only big companies either. Tiny startups use them to send out their newsletters, invites, notifications, etc. When I get an email from a no-reply address, I know that company doesn’t want to

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  • 2016/03/20 02:00
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  The tool we built to keep everyone in the loop at Basecamp

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  From teams to individuals, we aimed for a straightforward, consistent system to communicate the occasional, the week-to-week, and the day-to-day to everyone across our company. No matter the company, once you reach a certain size — and it’s not very big — you begin to have communication challenges. There are dozens of challenges, but for this article I’d like to focus on this one: Keeping people a

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  • 2016/03/19 10:50

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  Is group chat making you sweat?

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  Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group chat and messaging tool for business. Since then, quite a few business chat and messaging tools like Hipchat, Flowdock, Slack and others have sprung up. And we’ve since rolled group chat and instant messag

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/03/08 00:51

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  The Majestic Monolith

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  Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a deep repertoire of solutions ready to apply and make your code better every time you hit their context. Then there are other patterns that are less about the code and more about how the code is being wri

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  • 2016/03/01 00:26

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  RECONSIDER — Signal v. Noise

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  #WEBSUMMIT2015 About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a little better. A little nicer than trying to manage a project over email or by stringing together a bunch of separate chat, file sharing, and task systems. Alo

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  • 2016/02/08 10:36
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  The day I became a millionaire

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  I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better. Me in the middle in home-made clothing to go with home-made ninja weapons… oh yeah! But don’t worry: This isn’t a rags-to-riches story. I loathe the I-d

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  • 2015/12/09 19:24
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  Building Basecamp 3: Mobile Prototypes

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  Interactive prototyping was essential to designing Basecamp 3 for iOS and Android. In this article we’ll look at how we chose a prototyping tool and take a peek at a few of our prototypes. At Basecamp design happens through iteration. We don’t make highly-polished comps but instead work right in Basecamp’s code making hundreds (even thousands!) of tiny revisions until the design is just right. We

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  • 2015/11/17 23:43
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  RECONSIDER

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  signalvnoise.com

  About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a little better. A little nicer than trying to manage a project over email or by stringing together a bunch of separate chat, file sharing, and task systems. Along the way it m

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  • 2015/11/09 10:27
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  Launch: Basecamp 3

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  So today’s the day we finally get to unveil Basecamp 3! Nearly 2 years in the making, Basecamp 3 is the most ambitious product we’ve ever built. There’s so much new and hugely improved stuff! Radically more powerful than any Basecamp before it, it still maintains – and expands on – the straightforwardness and ease-of-use that people around the world have come to know, trust, and love about Basecam

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  • 2015/11/04 05:41

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  Remove the stress, pick a deadline

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  October 20 was the internal deadline we picked for Basecamp 3 back in early Summer. It was computed by the highly scientific method of two-parts sussing, one-part calendar dart throwing, and the full awareness of its arbitrary nature. The purpose of a self-imposed deadline is to sharpen the edge of your prioritization sword and stake a flag of coordination for the team. It’s not a hill to die on.

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  • 2015/10/20 15:36
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  Don’t base your business on a paid app

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  The App and Play stores have turned out to be exceptionally poor places to run a software product business for most developers. They’re great distribution channels for service makers, like Facebook or Lyft or Basecamp, but they’re terrible places to try to make a living (or better) selling software products. At a buck or few per app, how could it be otherwise? That type of pricing will work for An

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  • 2015/10/06 11:40

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  How we lost (and found) millions by not A/B testing

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  We’ve always felt strongly that we should share our lessons in business and technology with the world, and that includes both our successes and our failures. We’ve written about some great successes: how we’ve improved support response time, sped up applications, and improved reliability. Today I want to share an experience that wasn’t a success. This is the story of how we made a change to the Ba

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  • 2015/09/23 06:41
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  Go at Basecamp

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  Basecamp is a Ruby company. All of our customer facing applications are written with Ruby on Rails, we use Ruby for our systems automation via Chef, we deploy via Ruby through Capistrano, and underneath most rocks you’ll find a Ruby script that accomplishes some task. Increasingly, however, Go has found its way into our backend services and infrastructure in a variety of ways: Our timeseries data

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  • 2015/09/01 01:49

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  What our desks look like - 2015 edition – Signal v. Noise

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  Nearly three years ago, Nick posted about what our desks look like. It was a fun little peek into how people work and what they like to keep close by. But a lot changes in three years, so we thought it’d be fun to revisit our setups. Since Nick’s post, a bunch of new folks have joined our team from around the world, and some have even brought new people into the world! Some have moved into new hom

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  • 2015/01/15 11:37

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  Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content

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  When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recommendation, given the experiences people had in years prior with anything else. Facebook famously folded t

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  • 2014/12/05 10:04

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  Writing-first Design

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  A quick way to measure a designer’s maturity is to watch what they do at the beginning of a project. Inexperienced designers are often smitten by the allure of new tools and quick results, so they’ll jump in to Photoshop or Sketch and start messing with layouts and style explorations. Seasoned designers know this can be distracting, so they might start by doing research or drawing in a paper sketc

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  • 2014/11/22 15:12

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  Hybrid : How we took Basecamp multi-platform with a tiny team

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  Yesterday we announced the official Basecamp app for iPad. Just like our other apps for iPhone, Android, and Kindle it’s a hybrid—a native wrapper around a mobile web core. We’ve written about this setup before but today I wanted to really get into the details to show how it all works and how we’ve been able to launch four distinct apps with a handful of developers, just 5 people in all. How it wo

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  • 2014/08/01 09:59
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  Why we don't speak up at work

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  A few weeks ago, a friend told me he was thinking about quitting his job. He said it was because of communication breakdowns between him and his boss. Small moments of poor communication had snowballed into a deeper, gnawing frustration for my friend. I asked if he’d mentioned these moments to his boss. Maybe his boss had no idea these were problems in the first place. My friend acknowledged that

  • テクノロジー
  • 2014/07/16 20:48
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  It's OK not to use tools

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  Recently I did a little side project to improve the website for a non-profit animal shelter in our town. The existing site was an outdated Microsoft FrontPage menagerie, so basically anything I did would be a big improvement. I spent around 20 minutes creating a simple design in HTML, and then several hours editing, rewriting, and refining the copy. In the end, I reduced a scattershot 25-page webs

  • テクノロジー
  • 2014/05/22 09:32

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