December 13, 2005

New Stuff at Basecamp

Michael Arrington

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37 Signals’ announced a couple of new features yesterday and today for their popular (100,000 users claimed on home page) and useful Basecamp project management product.

First, Basecamp now hosts files directly on their servers without the need to set up your own FTP server. Files as large as 20 mb can be uploaded.

Second, Basecamp has created a basic affiliate program. If an affiliate pushes new paying members to Basecamp, the user gets credits against their Basecamp fees.

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Reinier

December 14th, 2005 at 12:32 am

Nice improvements, however with thes things out of the way we can look forward to 37signals’ CRM solution/addition.
Jason Fried

December 14th, 2005 at 6:53 am

We’re hard at work on the “CRM-ish” tool. Stay tuned.
Mark

December 14th, 2005 at 8:42 am

Er, so… how many actives of that supposed 100,000 users?
Mark

December 14th, 2005 at 8:45 am

Oh, and another thing.

On your blog, you’re going on about file uploads as if you’ve come up with some sort of miracle.

Do you realise that people have been, uh, you know, uploading files to websites pretty much since the inception of the Internet?

How is this TechCrunch-worthy? Is it because it has “37signals” written on it?
Jason Fried

December 14th, 2005 at 11:49 am

We’re not calling file uploads a miracle. There’s no mention of miracle, or revolution, or anything like that.

We’ve just made it easier for people to upload files to Basecamp. That’s all.

No outrageous claims here, just a new feature that helps people use Basecamp better.
Nick

December 14th, 2005 at 2:33 pm

Mark, you need to relax. When an application as widely used as Basecamp adds a new feature, I belive it is at least slightly plausible that this would be worth mention on a Web 2.0 blog… but maybe I’m crazy.
Tracey

December 14th, 2005 at 4:50 pm

Nick is correct, he does need to cool down a bit. I also notice this type of behavior on the SvN blog all of the time.

Many people seem to get irritated when they (37signals) announce features or products and they write them off as marketing mumbo-jumbo. It’s hilarious to me.