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We won’t be quitting Basecamp . . .

April 7, 2007

poweredbybasecamp.gifDouglas Karr has cancelled his BaseCamp account.  The Big in Japan team has 23 current projects in BaseCamp and the Architel team has 92 current projects (and who knows how many archived projects).  I am not sure how exactly we would deal with the loss of BaseCamp.  Literally, it is a vital application to both businesses. 

Note to self: figure out how to export data out of BaseCamp in the event of some catastrophe.  Ouch, I am getting worried… 

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog 

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One Response to “We won’t be quitting Basecamp . . .”

  1. Al Says:
    April 8th, 2007 at 8:58 am

    For exporting and from basecamp, these guys are worth cheking out : http://basejumpr.com/

  2. thetexasdepartment.info » HES 31 Says:
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:12 am

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  3. Jason McMinn Says:
    April 9th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    I agree somewhat with the post of Douglas Karr. I don’t think 37 signals UI work is 1/2 of what it used to be.

    I am always leary of SAS applications. We were burned by Netsuite and got taken to the cleaners in order to get our data. The concept is awesome, but the risk is putting your life into the web app and then they jack the prices up at their free will.

    We use Netsuite for CRM and accounting starting back in 2001 for about $29 per month. By 2005, we were having to pay over $600 a month for the same program. They claimed their offering was better and justified the price. Sure. We still used the same features 4 years later as we did when we signed up.

    Some may argue that the cult of 37Signals would never allow them to do this. Someday Bezos is going to want something in return for his equity. They are going to have to sell or have a liquidity event to make the money men whole. Next thing you know is that things are in someone else’s hands.

    We all know there is no free (or in this case cheap) lunch.

  4. Douglas Karr Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks for the link love! As a project manager, I stopped using Basecamp because none of my clients were really interested. The collaborative functionality was the only value it brought (at the time) between it and a desktop application.

    Ironically, I find myself now using Basecamp as a client of another development firm I’m working with offshore. I still struggle with some of its features - like I wish I could prioritize bugs, enhancements, etc. and discuss them (the task functionality is quite bare)… but it’s not too bad an application.

    I still don’t find myself wanting to shell out the bucks for my own clients, though.

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