Product Blog update: Switching from Salesforce to Highrise, Outpost to bring Basecamp to iPhone, Backpack Journal is "fan-frickin-tastic," etc. Jul 15
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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Highrise
Why The Demo Coach switched from Salesforce to Highrise
“To my surprise, Highrise turned out to be an amazing SAAS, which allows us to have basically the same functionality as Salesforce. The biggest differences to me is that the user interface is much more enjoyable to work with and the cost is a fraction of what I am used to paying for CRM.”
Basecamp
Coming soon: Outpost will let you manage Basecamp projects on your iPhone
Outpost (coming in August 2008 from Morfunk) promises to let you manage your Basecamp projects on your iPhone: “Take notes away from the office. Delegate tasks from the train. Check on deadlines. Upload photos to projects. Anywhere.”
Entrepreneur/Author at CNNMoney.com: “Basecamp brought a ‘best practices’ rigor to my business”
“Basecamp brought a ‘best practices’ rigor to my business. It gave us a common nomenclature for projects and allowed us to organize our content workflow into headings like Overview, Messages, To-Do’s, Milestones and more, tied to each project.”
Backpack
Blue Flavor thinks the Backpack Journal is “fan-frickin-tastic”
“About a month ago I read about Backpack’s new Journal feature. It seemed very interesting and after about a week of playing with it, I decided to get the rest of the team to try it out. Now we’ve got an amazing status tool (ala Twitter) AND an ongoing record of what everyone has an is working on. I find this really useful in planning my resources and projects. It’s also got all sorts of side benefits; keeping the team in touch in a low-noise way, reducing distraction by allowing people to announce that they’re busy. ‘Hey don’t bug me! I’m heads-down!!’”
Getting Real
vi.sualize.us creator on Getting Real and building an app in his spare time with no budget
“I developed the site in five months using only my spare time (nights, holidays…) and $0 budget…I started to read it and after a few chapters I couldn’t believe how lucky I was: a lot of the questions I was doing myself during the development, could finally have answers, or at least guidance! Your book came in at the right moment, completely out of the blue.”
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6 comments so far
Dhrumil 15 Jul 08
I’d get an iPhone just to run Basecamp on it.
Dhrumil 15 Jul 08
95% of my consulting clients use less than 5% of all the Sales Force features.
And the funny thing is, they think they are at fault. That they aren’t trained. That they don’t understand technology.
HypeComedy 15 Jul 08
When are you guys going to start making iPhone apps?
Mike 16 Jul 08
Nice to hear that they’re doing a basecamp app… but I’m kinda disappointed that I haven’t heard of 37 signals making one…
Matt Radel 16 Jul 08
I’d say your post about phasing out IE6 support is a little noteworthy as well. Mad props by the way – I hope it’s the start of something…
Alex 17 Jul 08
I don’t own an iPhone so I can’t test to see if you do this already, or if it’s even possible… But I just thought of a cool idea for to-do items. Actually cross items off with your finger when you’re done with them. (Swipe over the item from one side to the other, similar to the iPhone unlocking action.) It’d give a physical sense of accomplishment, actually crossing something off of your list.
Anyway, looks awesome.
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