As a designer, I was frustrated using Basecamp before and that made me start Teambox. I chose the open-source way (like Redmine) and a simple feature set (like

As a designer, I was frustrated using Basecamp before and that made me start Teambox. I chose the open-source way (like Redmine) and a simple feature set (like Basecamp), trying to make a more up-to-date version of what I thought project collaboration should be. Things I found missing on BC and I did implement on Teambox: a single account (37s got this right later), a real activity stream (Facebook style, reply to anything from the feed), an open-source codebase so others could extend it and tight integration of first level elements: Conversations, Tasks, Pages.