![]() When it caught on with their clients, they stopped consulting and started developing software full time. They designed it to manage their own workflow. But that’s never what Fried and his team intended Basecamp to be. ![]() They’re unlikely to propel the software into a full-blown competition with Slack. There’s much more to the new Basecamp 3, but those are the most influential ideas. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google doubled down on apps that let us collaborate more efficiently. They raised venture capital, promising growth on a grand scale. Heavily influenced by the emergence of social networking and empowered by the rise of cloud computing, entrepreneurs launched applications like Yammer (work Twitter) and Asana (work Facebook), not to mention Evernote, Atlassian, Dropbox, Box, Quip, Trello, and, of course, Slack. Somewhere along the way we all collectively agreed that email sucks. Eight years before Slack made instant messaging a viable substitute for most email, for example, Fried piloted Campfire, which did the same thing.īut a dozen years later, enterprise software has undergone a renaissance. By every measure, 37 Signals and its signature product were ahead of their time. Its founding team sprung from the Chicago design outfit 37 Signals, helmed by maverick web designer Jason Fried. It launched back in 2004, when “reply all” email chains were still cool. Unfortunately I have to keep using the app because I’m not the boss, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with teams bigger than 10 people.Before there was Slack, there was Basecamp. It just seems like this app won’t really ever get a real update. I’ve left messages with the support team about some of these issues but they just say “that’s a really good idea” and then nothing happens. For example, any user in a project or team can delete the project/team and put it in the trash! It’s not hard to recover, but still, poor functionality. You can’t lock certain things on the app or have any admin control. You just make lists of to-dos and assign them but there isn’t any conditional functions or order to it. There isn’t really anyway to set up workflows. People are constantly double texting, and it sends a notification for each message. My biggest problem is that you can’t silence group pings (chats). There really isn’t any customization at all. ![]() creating tasks and assigning them are easy as well, however it is a bit simple. ![]() I’ve been using Basecamp with my company for 3 years or so. You never know what you had until it’s gone.Įasy to use but no product updates in 3 years It’s why those that leave end up coming back and sticking with us the second time around. It’s why teams that sometimes leave in search of “more power” end up slamming into the consequences of over-powered software: Complexity. Not on separate platforms scattered in various places, but all intuitively organized in one centralized place where everyone can work together.īasecamp’s intentionally simple by design. Perfected and pressure-tested by hundreds of thousands of teams on millions of projects, Basecamp’s the gold standard for a simpler, superior version of project management.īasecamp works because it’s the easiest place for everyone in every role to put the stuff, work on the stuff, discuss the stuff, decide on the stuff, and deliver the stuff that makes up every project. For nearly two decades, we’ve continually refined a unique set of tools and methods to fundamentally reduce complexity, and make project management more of a joy and less of a chore. Unfortunately, lots of software makes it worse by over-complicating things. Managing people and projects under pressure is tough enough. The refreshingly simple, and remarkably effective, project management platform. ![]()
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