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37Signals website in 2000 when they had 4 people and no DHH
- kieranyo 16y agoWoah I'd completely forgotten about K10K! (from http://37signals.com/23 http://37signals.com/23)
- mkr-hn 16y agoThe drop-down navigation is a blast from the past.
- Jem 16y agoYes, and now the next time one of my designer colleagues tries to use them in a website and I say "lay off, that's SO 2000" I have a working example to prove it.
- avrvrv 16y agoWhat's a DHH ?
- paolomaffei 16y agoDaniel or David something, anyway the name, second name and surname of one of the current and most iconic 37 signals guys
- davidw 16y ago"Piling on" downvoting of someone who was sincerely answering a question is not nice. Think the answer is wrong or unhelpful or something? Vote it to 0 or -1 and leave it at that. Or don't bother...
- rewind 16y agoIf the sincere question would have taken two seconds to type "DHH" into Google to answer, then down-voting is fair game.
- mkramlich 16y agoI think the question should be downvoted because anyone who's got a web browser to visit HN also has Google and a web search widget just a click away. And Mr. Rails/37Signals is the top result for a search on DHH. Downvoting paolo's attempt at an answer is not cool, however. Or least, it's less understandable.
- haasted 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson He's a partner in 37signals and the creator of Ruby on Rails.
- smallegan 16y agohttp://tinyurl.com/4mf5n5a http://tinyurl.com/4mf5n5a
- DTrejo 16y agoDHH: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
- guynamedloren 16y agoDid I miss something here? What does this have to do with DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)?
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- visakhcr 16y agoPoor guy got confused with Disagreement Hierarchy (DH) and DHH!!
- DuncanIdaho 16y agoDHH is a force of nature. Usually appears around topics that are part of Enterprise folklore and causes combustion of said topic. DHH also caused Rails to happen. With it the DHH spawned another force of nature called the Rails community. The rails community acts very much like DHH and also causes various combustions of various topics. The Rails community also closely monitors DHH activities and should some threat to DHH arise, the Rails community spawns instantly to protect the pure essence of 37 signals idea that is DHH. Oh and Rails community also buys books that DHH has materialized.
- aeden 16y agoWhat an awesome comment. Worth permalinking.
- dpritchett 16y agoDHH is bad and nationwide. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-bad-im-nationwide-job-security-vs.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-bad-im-nationwid...
- whatusername 16y agoIt's like the ZondaHH but not as fast or as pretty: http://zondahh.com/ http://zondahh.com/
- mkramlich 16y agoAccording to Google it is: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=DHH&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
- jasonfried 16y agoThe home page and full site: http://37signals.com/manifesto http://37signals.com/manifesto
- duck 16y agoThe one I always enjoyed the most was from http://37signals.com/28 http://37signals.com/28: Trends are temporary. Don't just do something because everyone else is doing it – do something because it makes sense. And for a good laugh: http://37signals.com/enormicom http://37signals.com/enormicom
- willgodfrey 16y agoI know I sound curt, but don't you find the bit about trends you quoted a tad ironic here on HN? I mean, what's more trendy in Web3.0 than web apps with landing pages featuring a few bands of color for a background, drop shadows, Apple-like icons, 2 short sentences, and a request to signup?
- fizx 16y agoWho started that trend?
- duck 16y agoI do find it ironic actually and that is why I like that one. It is very easy to be trendy and I think you know you are onto something big when it easily breaks them.
- generalk 16y ago> Don't just do something because everyone else is > doing it – do something because it makes sense. I can't speak for the particulars of gradients or drop-shadows, but if two-sentence landing pages with an obvious call to action get signups, then it makes sense to do things that way. I guess the inverse of the advice is "Don't refuse to do something just because it's trendy -- base your choice on whether or not it makes sense."
- oscardelben 16y agoAesthetically I would say it was a good looking website even by today's standards.
- dasil003 16y agoEspecially when you compare it to the best designed websites of the time. Granted, going minimalist was a very wise choice; IE6 was far and away the most advanced browser of the time, and the real thorn in every web designer's side was Netscape 4. But the bottom line is that the design holds up, which is remarkable regardless of which design direction you take.
- retlehs 16y agoBack in 2002: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2340-flashback-the-37signals-homepage-back-in-2002 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2340-flashback-the-37signals-...
- ptn 16y agoDoes anybody know who those 4 guys were?
- jasonfried 16y agoJason Fried (me!) Ernest Kim (now at Wieden+Kennedy, at Nike before that) Carlos Segura (Segura, 5inch, t26) Matt Linderman (still at 37signals)
- silverlight 16y agoI always wondered where the 37 signals came from: "Mankind constantly analyzes radio waves from outer space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since this analysis started, almost all of the signal sources have been identified. 37 signals, however, remain unexplained." ...a little more out there than I would have thought.
- sili 16y agoThat would also explain their link to the SETI project at http://37signals.com/37 http://37signals.com/37. Edit: just noticed that it's also on 37th page of the site. Delightful.
- glasner 16y agoQuite the blast from the past. My favorite old link is to their 37better project: http://37signals.com/better http://37signals.com/better http://37signals.com/better/bank/index http://37signals.com/better/bank/index
- run4yourlives 16y agoThe bank website is still better than 99% of all enterprise applications from a UI perspective.
- noahc 16y agoThe biggest take away here is the iterative process they went through each day to get to where they are today. Imagine if I showed you the old 2000 homepage and today and said in 11 years they were going to have had a board seat on the fastest growing company ever, be making millions, and be the darling of every bootstrapped in the world. The point start today and in eleven years you'll be some where.
- autalpha 16y agoheh, cute: <blink>12:00</blink> (http://37signals.com/03 http://37signals.com/03)
- Johngibb 16y agoI remember the days of clear.gif! (or blank.gif, spacer.gif, etc...)
- lkozma 16y agoAnother design studio's credo: http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/ http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/
- pixeloution 16y ago37BetterBank: http://37signals.com/better/bank/index http://37signals.com/better/bank/index This is still better then most banking websites. It's too bad no bank ever hired them to create the public facing UI.
- angelbob 16y agoLooks a lot like Mint. Wonder if that's intentional on Mint's part.
- bradleyjoyce 16y agois it just me or does this get posted like once every 8 months or so?
- camworld 16y agoThat's a classic. My old pioneering blog, camworld, is in there a few times. But I sold the domain several years ago. It's a porn site now. Oh well, the times. They do change...