Getting Real, our book about a smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application, is now available as a free PDF (it used to cost $19).
We’ve used the Getting Real methods to develop all of our products. Here’s what other people have said about Getting Real.
Head over to the Getting Real site to get your free PDF of Getting Real. We hope you enjoy it.
Jason Fried wrote this on May 24 2012 There are 19 comments.
Gabriele 24 May 12
Done, thanks! I finished Rework just a couple of days ago and I truly loved it!
Mark Wilden 24 May 12
Anyone who hasn’t read Getting Real yet because it cost too much needs to get their head examined.
Tim 24 May 12
Read this book years ago and it truly was one of the catalysts for how I work today.
Thanks for making it free.
Lemi 24 May 12
Getting Real really helped me changed my vision of software development.
Chris Harrison 24 May 12
Thank you.
Tammy 24 May 12
Thank you so much for offering this! I loved Rework. Looking forward to reading this one over the holiday weekend!
Dimitris 24 May 12
Read the book on iBooks. I think everyone should read it. Thanks for making it free.
W. Szabó Péter 24 May 12
Thanks a lot for this insane offer. I will reread it on my iPad during my vacation.
Mike 24 May 12
What an amazing site design http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Jesper 24 May 12
Thanks for making it available for free.
Maybe this will come across as ungrateful on the back end of receiving a gift, but I would have liked to have seen the note about the mailing list before I entered my email address. It’s probably the easiest thing in the world to unsubscribe and the messages are probably so good that I won’t want to. That form not being up-front with me about it still stung a little. If you’re going to sign people up to a mailing list, do it with conviction; not in a way that, if you don’t know 37signals and their excellent track record already, looks like a ruse.
Thanks again; if it’s good and you provide a way to nevertheless pay for it without shipping around a physical book, I will do so.
Clare 25 May 12
Thank you so much! That was jolly nice of you. I read Rework a couple months ago – enjoyed it, especially what you said about writing, and your insights about the usefulness of constraints.
Sally 25 May 12
I am in Australia, I can’t open the link and get the book. Why?
Rob 25 May 12
Thank you
Mike Critchley 25 May 12
Just reading it now. I first heard of these ideas from David’s “Unlearn your MBA ” Stanford podcast. It’s one of the few presentations I’ve listened to more than once. In fact, I have been through it about 6 times now (mostly because I love it when people have the cajones to call BS when they see it!).
Anyway, I was involved in an educational start up that basically went against most of what you wrote - trying to do all the BizDev and chasing VC money before we even had a product - that startup is now history. Lesson learned, but wish I’d read this book before going through all that. Thanks VERY much for offering this one up for free. I hope to be able to do the same some day!
Tim 25 May 12
Annoyed I paid for it now. Regret = bad for customers to feel
Steve 26 May 12
Tim, you are a cheap ass that a few dollars annoys you.
Tsybart 26 May 12
Thank for this! Used for my web idea.
Jason 28 May 12
I’ll keep this on my iPad!
Ant1j 30 May 12
Thanks a lot for this wonderful gift! Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit very well with Kindle, and using converting programs (k2pdfopt) doesn’t help either. Any chance we could get a Kindle-optimized version? (I know I am very demanding here …)
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